Year in Japan
1907 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 40 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Kinue Hitomi 人見絹枝 · Journalist — Japanese athlete (1907–1931)
- Chūya Nakahara 中原中也 · Writer — Japanese symbolist poet (1907–1937)
- Aimitsu 靉光 · Painter — Japanese modern painter (1907-1946)
Reading the year 1907 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1907 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 40 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 1907年 (1907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.