# 1910 in Japan

Events in the year 1910 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 43 (明治43年) in the Japanese calendar.

## Incumbents

* Emperor: Emperor Meiji
* Prime Minister: Katsura Tarō

### Governors

* Aichi Prefecture: Ichizo Fukano
* Akita Prefecture: Mori Masataka
* Aomori Prefecture: Takeda Chiyosaburo
* Ehime Prefecture: Takio Izawa
* Fukui Prefecture: Nakamura Junkuro
* Fukushima Prefecture: Shotaro Nishizawa
* Gifu Prefecture: Sadakichi Usu
* Gunma Prefecture: Uruji Kamiyama
* Hiroshima Prefecture: Tadashi Munakata
* Ibaraki Prefecture: Keisuke Sakanaka
* Iwate Prefecture: Shinichi Kasai
* Kagawa Prefecture: Motohiro Onoda then Kogoro Kanokogi
* Kanagawa Prefecture: Kenzo Ishihara then Goro Sugiyama
* Kochi Prefecture: Kenzo Ishihara then Goro Sugiyama
* Kunamoto Prefecture: Kawaji Toshikyo
* Kyoto Prefecture: Shoichi Omori
* Mie Prefecture: Yoshisuke Arita
* Miyagi Prefecture: Hiroyuki Terada
* Miyazaki Prefecture: Tadayoshi Naokichi
* Nagano Prefecture: Akira Oyama then Chiba Sadamiki
* Niigata Prefecture: Prince Kiyoshi Honba
* Saga Prefecture: Nishimura Mutsu then Fuwa
* Saitama Prefecture: Shimada Gotaro
* Shiname Prefecture: Maruyama Shigetoshi
* Tochigi Prefecture: .....
* Tokyo: Hiroshi Abe
* Tottori: Oka Kishichiro Itami
* Toyama Prefecture: Usami Katsuo then Tsunenosuke Hamada
* Yamagata Prefecture: Mabuchi Eitaro

## Events

* May 14 – The Japan–British Exhibition opens at White City, London, the largest international exposition the Empire of Japan had participated in up to that time.
* May 20 – Kōtoku Incident: police searching the room of Miyashita Takichi, discover a socialist-anarchist plot to assassinate the Japanese Emperor Meiji, leading to mass arrests.
* August 22 – Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910: Japan formally annexes Korea. The treaty was proclaimed to the public (and became effective) on August 29, 1910, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
* October 1 – The Nippon Columbia record label is founded by Nipponophone Co., Ltd.
* November – A confectionery brand Fujiya founded in Yokohama.
* December - The Japanese Antarctic Expedition leaves Tokyo, led by Nobu Shirase.

## Births

* January 7 – Masako Shirasu, novelist (d. 1998)
* January 21 – Hideo Shinojima, footballer (d. 1975)
* February 6 – Komako Hara, film actress (d. 1968)
* February 19 – Prince Nagahisa Kitashirakawa (d. 1940)
* March 12 – Masayoshi Ōhira, politician (d. 1980)
* March 23 – Akira Kurosawa, screenwriter, producer, and director (d. 1998)
* May 16 – Higashifushimi Kunihide, Buddhist monk (d. 2014)
* September 10 – Kozaburo Hirai, composer (d. 2002)
* October 10 – Ichiji Tasaki, biophysicist (d. 2009)
* November 10 – Takeo Fujisawa, businessman (d. 1988)
* November 15 – Yatarō Kurokawa, actor (d. 1984)

## Deaths

* March 3 – Sasaki Takayuki, government minister and court official (b. 1830)
* April 15 – Tsutomu Sakuma, career naval officer and pioneer submarine commander (b. 1879)
* April 22 – Rokuzan Ogiwara, sculptor (b. 1879)
* June 11 – Kataharu Matsudaira daimyō (b. 1869)
* July 3
** Tokugawa Akitake, daimyō (b. 1853)
** Matasaburō Watanabe, politician (b. 1850)
* August 2 – Inoue Masaru, Director of Railways in Japan (b. 1843)
* August 26 – Ume Kenjirō, legal scholar (b. 1860)
* September 13 – Sone Arasuke, politician and Japanese Resident-General of Korea (b. 1849)
* October 24 – Yamada Bimyō, novelist (b. 1868)
* November 5 – Nishio Tadaatsu, daimyō (b. 1850)