Events from the year 1898 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 31 (æÂÂæ²»31å¹´) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
Births
- February 4 – Shinsui ItÃ
Â, Nihonga painter (d. 1972)
- February 9 – JÃ
«kichi Yagi, poet (d. 1927)
- February 15 – Masuji Ibuse, author (d. 1993)
- March 17 – Riichi Yokomitsu, writer (d. 1947)
- April 28 – Yuzo Saeki, painter (d. 1928)
- April 29 – Iwao Yamawaki, photographer (d. 1987)
- October 5 – KenzÃ
 Masaoka, anime creator (d. 1988)
- October 17 – Shinichi Suzuki, violinist, (d. 1998)
- October 31 – Yoshitoshi Mori, artist (d. 1992)
- December 11 – TarÃ
 ShÃ
Âji, popular song singer (d. 1972)
- December 12 – Denji Kuroshima, author (d. 1943)
- December 27 – Inejiro Asanuma, politician, leader of the Japan Socialist Party (d. 1960)
Deaths
References