1907 in Japan

Events in the year 1907 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 40 (Ã¦ÂÂÃ¦Â²Â»40Ã¥Â¹Â´) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

February 5 – Nisshin Spinning, later Nisshinbo founded.
February 15 – Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907
May Unknown date
Maruzen Petroleum, as predecessor of Cosmo Petroleum was founded in Osaka.
Seasoning, food processing, medication brand, Ajinomoto was founded by in Kyobashi, Tokyo, as predecessor name was Suzuki Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.
May 11 – Hinode Life Insurance, later Sumitomo Life Insurance was founded.
June 10 – Franco-Japanese Treaty of 1907
July 24 – JapanÃ¢ÂÂKorea Treaty of 1907
September 7 – Asahi Grass (now AGC) founded in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture.

January 1 – Kinue Hitomi, sprinter and long jumper (d. 1931)
January 8 – KeizÃÂ Hayashi, civil servant (d. 1991)
January 23 – Hideki Yukawa, theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
February 25 – Utaemon Ichikawa, actor (d. 1999)
March 17 – Takeo Miki, 41st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1988)
April 29 – ChÃÂ«ya Nakahara, poet (d. 1937)
May 6 – Yasushi Inoue, author (d. 1991)
June 29 – Junji Nishikawa, footballer
July 15 – ShÃÂshin Nagamine, karate master, author, soldier and police officer (d. 1997)
August 1 – Hisato Ohzawa, composer (d. 1953)
August 12 – Noriko Awaya, soprano chanson and ryÃÂ«kÃÂka singer (d. 1999)
October 1 – RyÃÂichi Hattori, composer (d. 1993)

March 12 – Matsumoto Jun, physician (b. 1832)
September 2 – Kuga Katsunan, journalist (b. 1857)
October 5 – Nakayama Yoshiko, lady-in-waiting, mother of Emperor Meiji (b. 1836)
December 16 – Asai ChÃÂ«, painter (b. 1856)