1890 in Japan

Events in the year 1890 in Japan.

← 1889 1888 1887 1890 in Japan → 1891 1892 1893
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1890 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Incumbents

• Monarch: Emperor Meiji
• Prime Minister: Yamagata Aritomo

Governors

• Aichi Prefecture: Baron Takatoshi Iwamura then Kojiro Iwasaki
• Akita Prefecture: Kojiro Iwasaki then Baron Akira Suzuki
• Aomori Prefecture: Masa Sawa
• Ehime Prefecture: Katsumata Minoru
• Fukui Prefecture: Toshitsuna Adashi
• Fukuoka Prefecture: Yasujo
• Fukushima Prefecture: Nobumichi Yamada
• Gifu Prefecture: Toshi Kozaki
• Gunma Prefecture: Sato Atasesan
• Hiroshima Prefecture: Nabeshima Miki
• Ibaraki Prefecture: Sadanori Yasuda
• Iwate Prefecture: Shoichiro Ishii
• Kagawa Prefecture: Yawara Shibahara
• Kochi Prefecture: Baron Hiroi Hirotake
• Kumamoto Prefecture: Takaaki Tomioka
• Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Kokudo Kitagaki
• Mie Prefecture: Shangyi Narukawa
• Miyagi Prefecture: Matsudaira Masanao
• Miyazaki Prefecture: Takayoshi Kyoganu
• Nagano Prefecture: Baron Utsumi Tadakatsu
• Niigata Prefecture: Senda Sada Akatsuki
• Oita Prefecture: Ryokichi Nishimura
• Okinawa Prefecture: Kanji Maruoka
• Osaka Prefecture: Sutezo Nishimura
• Saga Prefecture: Sukeo Kabayama
• Saitama Prefecture: Eitaro Komatsubara
• Shiname Prefecture: Sada Kotedayasu
• Tochigi Prefecture: Orita Hirauchi
• Tokyo: Marquis Shigeru Hachisuke then Tomita Tetsunosuke
• Toyama Prefecture: Fujishima Masaki then Fujishima Masaki
• Yamagata Prefecture: Hasebe Ren

Events

• February unknown date – Kubota founded in Nishi-ku, Osaka.
• July 1 – 1890 Japanese general election; Empire of Japan’s first general election for members of the House of Representatives of the Diet of Japan. It was the first example of a popularly elected national assembly in Asia
• November 25 – The first Diet session is held.
• Unknown date – Ōshita Kaishunō, as predecessor of Fumakillar, an insecticide manufacturing and sales brand, founded in Hiroshima.

Births

• January 15 – Michiaki Kamada, admiral (d. 1947)
• January 28 – Fusako, Princess Kane, seventh daughter of Emperor Meiji (d. 1974)
• September 30 – Chieko Higashiyama, film actress (d. 1980)
• November 3 – Yamakawa Kikue, activist, writer, socialist, and feminist (d. 1980)

Deaths

• January 23 – Joseph Hardy Neesima, educator (b. 1843)
• June 2 – Matsudaira Yoshinaga, daimyō (b. 1828)