• Source: 1896 in Japan

Events in the year 1896 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 29 (明治29年) in the Japanese calendar.




Incumbents


Monarch: Emperor Meiji
Prime Minister:
Itō Hirobumi (until August 31)
Kuroda Kiyotaka (acting) (August 31 – September 18)
Matsukata Masayoshi (from September 18)




= Governors

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Aichi Prefecture: Tokito Konkyo
Akita Prefecture: Yasuhiko Hirayama then Saburo Iwao
Aomori Prefecture: Masa Sawa then Naomasa Maki
Ehime Prefecture: Chang Masaya Komaki
Fukui Prefecture: Kunizo Arakawa
Fukushima Prefecture: Yasutaro Hara then Ogura Nobuchika then Akiyama
Gifu Prefecture: Sukeo Kabayama
Gunma Prefecture: Motootoko Nakamura then Abe Hiroshi then Masataka Ishizata
Hiroshima Prefecture: Nabeshima Miki then Orita Heinai
Ibaraki Prefecture: Egi Kazuyuki then Motohiro Onoda
Iwate Prefecture: Ichizo Hattori
Kagawa Prefecture: Ichizo Fukano then Tsunenori Tokuhisa
Kochi Prefecture: Ishida Eikichi then Hiroshi Shikakui
Kumamoto Prefecture: Matsudaira Masanao then Kanetake Oura
Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Nobumichi Yamada
Mie Prefecture: Terumi Tanabe
Miyagi Prefecture: Terumi Tanabe
Nagano Prefecture: Takasaki Chikaaki
Niigata Prefecture: Baron Seung Zhi Kuwata
Oita Prefecture: Tameharu Yamada then Yasuhiko Hirayama
Okinawa Prefecture: Shigeru Narahara
Osaka Prefecture: Utsumi Tadakatsu
Saga Prefecture: Takeuchi
Saitama Prefecture: Teru Tanabe then Tomi Senketaka
Shiname Prefecture: Michio Sokabe
Tochigi Prefecture: Egi Kazuyuki
Tokyo: Miura Yasushi then Marquis Michitsune Koga
Toyama Prefecture: Tokuhisa Tsunenori then Ando Kinsuke
Yamagata Prefecture: Shuichi Kinoshita




Events


June 15 – Sanriku earthquake: One of the most destructive seismic events in Japanese history. The 8.5 magnitude earthquake occurred at 19:32 (local time), approximately 166 kilometres (103 mi) off the coast of Iwate Prefecture, Honshu. It resulted in two tsunamis which destroyed about 9,000 homes and caused at least 22,000 deaths. The waves reached a record height of 38.2 metres (125 ft); more than a meter lower than those created after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake which triggered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
December 28 – Nippon Flower Mills (Nipun) was founded.
Unknown date – Penta-Ocean construction company founded
Unknown date – Kotaro Mikamo reports the first results of a double-eyelid procedure for aesthetic purposes.




Births


January 1 – Hankyu Sasaki, admiral (d. 1971)
April 22 – Chishō Takaoka, geisha, writer, and nun (d. 1994)
May 11 – Toshiko, Princess Yasu, daughter of Emperor Meiji (d. 1978)
July 28 – Takeru Inukai, politician and novelist (d. 1960)
August 27 – Kenji Miyazawa, author and poet (d. 1933)
November 13 – Nobusuke Kishi, politician and Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1987)




Deaths


February 28 – Tazawa Inabune, writer (b. 1874)
November 23 – Ichiyō Higuchi, writer (b. 1872)




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