Year in Japan

1901 in Japanese History

4 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Meiji period (明治時代, 1868 – 1912).

Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 34 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Motojirō Kajii 梶井基次郎 · Writer — author (1901–1932)
Akira Shimada 島田叡 · Politician — bureaucrat (1901-1945)
Akashi Kaijin 明石海人 · Writer — Japanese poet and writer (1901–1939)
Mushitarō Oguri 小栗虫太郎 · Writer — Japanese author

Reading the year 1901 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1901 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 34 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 1901年 (1901ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 20th century for its neighbours.