Year in Japan
1875 in Japanese History
9 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Meiji period (明治時代, 1868 – 1912).
Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 8 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Fushimi Hiroyasu 伏見宮博恭王 · Politician — Japanese prince (1875–1946)
- Yone Noguchi 野口米次郎 · Journalist — Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism (1875-1947)
- Matsunosuke Onoe 尾上松之助 · Actor — actor (1875-1926)
- Majikina Ankō 真境名安興 · Historian — Japanese scholar of Okinawan history and culture (1875–1933)
- Kaiichirō Suematsu 末松偕一郎 · Politician — Japanese politician (1875-1947)
- Kahei Toki 土岐嘉平 · Politician — Japanese politician, Mayor of Kyoto
- Kamehiko Abe 阿部亀彦 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Senshū Suetaka 千秋季隆 · Politician — Japanese politician and nobleman (born 1875)
- Kuni Taka 多嘉王 · Politician — Japanese prince (1875-1937)
Reading the year 1875 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1875 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 8 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".
The year itself is read 1875年 (1875ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 19th century for its neighbours.