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)