Year in Japan
1884 in Japanese History
15 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Meiji period (明治時代, 1868 – 1912).
Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 17 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Isoroku Yamamoto 山本五十六 · Military officer — Japanese Marshal Admiral (1884–1943)
- Hideki Tojo 東條英機 · Military officer — Japanese general and politician (1884–1948)
- Toshiko Tamura 田村俊子 · Writer — 1884-1945 writer
- Tetsuzan Nagata 永田鉄山 · Military officer — Japanese general (1884–1935)
- Yumeji Takehisa 竹久夢二 · Writer — Japanese artist (1884-1934)
- Chikuhei Nakajima 中島知久平 · Politician — Japanese politician and founder of Nakajima Aircraft Company
- Jun Tsuji 辻潤 · Musician — Japanese author, Dadaist, nihilist, Stirnerite, epicurean, shakuhachi musician, playwright and actor
- Hideo Hatoyama 鳩山秀夫 · Politician — Japanese lawyer
- Chikahiko Koizumi 小泉親彦 · Politician — Japanese physician
- Kazunobu Kanokogi 鹿子木員信 · Philosopher — Japanese philosopher (1884-1949)
- Nobuteru Mori 森矗昶 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Korekiyo Otsuka 大塚惟精 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Bochō Yamamura 山村暮鳥 · Writer — Japanese writer (1884-1924)
- Hiroshi Koshiba 小柴博 · Writer — Japanese scouting pioneer
- Ryūji Tanabe 田邊隆二 · Monk — Japanese businessman
Reading the year 1884 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1884 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 17 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 1884年 (1884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.