1905 in Japan

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

← 1904 1903 1902 1905 in Japan → 1906 1907 1908
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1905 History of Japan Timeline Years

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)