Year in Japan
1878 in Japanese History
13 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Meiji period (明治時代, 1868 – 1912).
Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 11 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Kōki Hirota 広田弘毅 · Politician — Japanese prime minister, diplomat, and war criminal (1878-1948)
- Iwane Matsui 松井石根 · Military officer — Japanese general (1878–1948)
- Akiko Yosano 与謝野晶子 · Writer — Japanese tanka poet (1878–1942)
- Takeo Arishima 有島武郎 · Writer — Japanese writer (1878-1923)
- Shōzō Makino 牧野省三 · Monk — Japanese film director, film producer, and businessman (1878–1929)
- Torahiko Terada 寺田寅彦 · Journalist — Japanese physicist (1878–1935)
- Sakuzō Yoshino 吉野作造 · Historian — Japanese academic (1878-1933)
- Seiji Noma 野間清治 · Journalist — Japanese publisher (1878-1938)
- Hino Kumazo 日野熊蔵 · Monk — Japanese general
- Matsudaira Morio 松平保男 · Politician — Japanese admiral (1878-1944)
- Teiichi Okano 岡野貞一 · Musician — Japanese composer (1878-1941)
- Tokushichi Nomura II 野村徳七 (二代) · Politician — Japanese politician (1878–1945)
- Debuchi Katsuji 出淵勝次 · Politician — Japanese politician
Reading the year 1878 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1878 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 11 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 1878年 (1878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.