1905 in Japan

Events in the year 1905 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 38 (明治38年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

 * Emperor: Emperor Meiji
 * Prime Minister: Katsura Tarō

Governors

 * Aichi Prefecture: Masaaki Nomura
 * Akita Prefecture: Oka Kishichiro Itami then Takejiro Yukaji
 * Aomori Prefecture: Shotaro Nishizawa
 * Ehime Prefecture: Kensuke Ando
 * Fukui Prefecture: Suke Sakamoto
 * Fukushima Prefecture: Arita Yoshisuke
 * Gifu Prefecture: Kawaji Toshikyo
 * Gunma Prefecture: Yoshimi Teru
 * Hiroshima Prefecture: Yamada Shunzō
 * Ibaraki Prefecture: Teru Terahara
 * Iwate Prefecture: Sokkichi Oshikawa
 * Kagawa Prefecture: Motohiro Onoda
 * Kochi Prefecture: Munakata Tadashi
 * Kumamoto Prefecture: Egi Kazuyuki
 * Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Shoichi Omori
 * Mie Prefecture: Lord Arimitsu Hideyoshi
 * Miyagi Prefecture: Kamei Ezaburo
 * Miyazaki Prefecture: Toda Tsunetaro
 * Nagano Prefecture: Seki Kiyohide then Akira Oyama
 * Niigata Prefecture: Hiroshi Abe
 * Oita Prefecture: Ogura Hisashi
 * Okinawa Prefecture: Shigeru Narahara
 * Saga Prefecture: Fai Kagawa
 * Saitama Prefecture: Marquis Okubo Toshi Takeshi
 * Shiga Prefecture: Sada Suzuki
 * Shiname Prefecture: Matsunaga Takeyoshi
 * Tochigi Prefecture: Kubota Kiyochika
 * Tokushima Prefecture: Saburo Iwao
 * Tokyo: Baron Sangay Takatomi
 * Toyama Prefecture: Rika Ryusuke then Shinhare Kawakami
 * Yamagata Prefecture: Tanaka Takamichi
 * Yamanashi Prefecture: Takeda Chiyosaburo

Events

 * January 2: The Russian Army surrenders at Port Arthur in China.
 * January 25–29: Battle of Sandepu
 * February 20-March 10: Battle of Mukden
 * April 1: Japan–Korea Agreement of April 1905
 * May 27–28: Battle of Tsushima
 * August 13: Japan–Korea Agreement of August 1905
 * September 1: Kobe Steel has founded.
 * September 5: Treaty of Portsmouth signed, ending Russo-Japanese War
 * Hibiya Incendiary Incident
 * November 17: Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905

Births

 * January 3 – Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu (d. 1987)
 * January 5 – Tamako Kataoka, artist (d. 2008)
 * January 14 – Takeo Fukuda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1995)
 * January 15 – Kamatari Fujiwara, actor (d. 1985)
 * March 12 – Takashi Shimura, actor (d. 1982)
 * April 1 – Asaichi Isobe, army officer (d. 1937)
 * May 14 – Kunio Maekawa, architect (d. 1986)
 * May 28 – Sada Abe, geisha and prostitute (d. 1970?)
 * July 2 – Tatsuzō Ishikawa, writer (d. 1985)
 * August 20 – Mikio Naruse, filmmaker (d. 1969)
 * October 2 – Fumiko Enchi, writer (d. 1986)
 * October 3 – Taiko Hirabayashi, writer (d. 1972)
 * November 15 – Tamiki Hara, writer (d. 1951)

Deaths

 * January 31 – Soejima Taneomi, diplomat and statesman (b. 1828)
 * April 13 – Taguchi Ukichi, historian and economist (b. 1855)