Year in Japan

1902 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 35 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Hirotada Kachō 華頂宮博忠王 · Politician — member of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family
Masako Ogawa 小川正子 · Writer — Physician and author (1902-1943)
On Watanabe 渡辺温 · Writer — Japanese writer (1902–1930)

Reading the year 1902 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1902 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 35 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 1902年 (1902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.