1907 in Japan

Events in the year 1907 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 40 (明治40年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

 * Emperor: Emperor Meiji
 * Prime Minister: Saionji Kinmochi

Governors

 * Aichi Prefecture: Ichizo Fukano
 * Akita Prefecture: Chuji Shimooka
 * Aomori Prefecture: Shotaro Nishizawa
 * Ehime Prefecture: Kensuke Ando
 * Fukui Prefecture: Suke Sakamoto, Nakamura Junkuro
 * Fukushima Prefecture: Arita Yoshisuke then Hiraoka Teitaro
 * Gifu Prefecture: Sadakichi Usu
 * Gunma Prefecture: Yoshimi Teru, Arita Yoshisuke
 * Hiroshima Prefecture: Yamada Shunzō, Tadashi Munakata
 * Ibaraki Prefecture: Otsuka, Mori Masataka
 * Iwate Prefecture: Sokkichi Oshikawa, Shinichi Kasai
 * Kagawa Prefecture: Motohiro Onoda
 * Kumamoto Prefecture: Egi Kazuyuki, Norikichi Oshikawa
 * Kōchi Prefecture: Munakata Tadashi, Sada Suzuki
 * Kyoto Prefecture: Shoichi Omori
 * Mie Prefecture: Baron Shoichi Omori
 * Miyagi Prefecture: Kamei Ezaburo
 * Miyazaki Prefecture: Nagai Enjin
 * Nagano Prefecture: Tsunamasa Ōyama
 * Niigata Prefecture: Hiroshi Abe, Kiyoshi Honba
 * Okayama Prefecture: Terada Yushi
 * Okinawa Prefecture: Narahara Shigeru
 * Osaka Prefecture: Chikaaki Takasaki
 * Saga Prefecture: Fai Kagawa
 * Saitama Prefecture: Marquis Okubo, Toshi Takeshi, Shimada Gotaro
 * Shiga Prefecture: Sada Suzuki
 * Shimane Prefecture: Matsunaga Takeyoshi
 * Tochigi Prefecture: .....
 * Tokyo: Baron Senge Takatomi
 * Toyama Prefecture: Usami Katsuo
 * Yamagata Prefecture: Mabuchi Eitaro

Events

 * February 5 – Nisshin Spinning, later Nisshinbo founded.
 * February 15 – Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907
 * May Unknown date
 * Maruzen Petroleum, as predecessor of Cosmo Petroleum was founded in Osaka.
 * Seasoning, food processing, medication brand, Ajinomoto was founded by Saburosuke Suzuki in Kyobashi, Tokyo, as predecessor name was Suzuki Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.
 * May 11 – Hinode Life Insurance, later Sumitomo Life Insurance was founded.
 * June 10 – Franco-Japanese Treaty of 1907
 * July 24 – Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907
 * September 7 – Asahi Grass (now AGC) founded in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture.

Births

 * January 1 – Kinue Hitomi, sprinter and long jumper (d. 1931)
 * January 8 – Keizō Hayashi, civil servant (d. 1991)
 * January 23 – Hideki Yukawa, theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
 * February 25 – Utaemon Ichikawa, actor (d. 1999)
 * March 17 – Takeo Miki, 41st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1988)
 * April 29 – Chūya Nakahara, poet (d. 1937)
 * May 6 – Yasushi Inoue, author (d. 1991)
 * August 1 – Hisato Ohzawa, composer (d. 1953)
 * August 12 – Noriko Awaya, soprano chanson and ryūkōka singer (d. 1999)
 * October 1 – Ryōichi Hattori, composer (d. 1993)

Deaths

 * March 12 – Matsumoto Jun, physician (b. 1832)
 * September 2 – Kuga Katsunan, journalist (b. 1857)
 * October 5 – Nakayama Yoshiko, lady-in-waiting, mother of Emperor Meiji (b. 1836)
 * December 16 – Asai Chū, painter (b. 1856)