← 1897 1896 1895 1898 in Japan → 1899 1900 1901
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1898 History of Japan Timeline Years

Events from the year1898 inJapan. It corresponds toMeiji 31 (明治31年) in theJapanese calendar.

• Emperor:Emperor Meiji^[1]
• Prime Minister:
  • Matsukata Masayoshi: until January 12:
  • Itō Hirobumi: January 12 – June 30
  • Ōkuma Shigenobu: June 30 – November 8
  • Yamagata Aritomo: starting November 8

• Aichi Prefecture:Egi Kazuyuki thenBaron Mori Mamoru
• Akita Prefecture:Saburo Iwao
• Aomori Prefecture:Ichiro Konoshu
• Ehime Prefecture:Park Shin Maki Naomasa thenGoro Shinozaki thenOba Kan'ichi
• Fukui Prefecture:Shingo Seki
• Fukushima Prefecture:Kimumichi Nagusami
• Gifu Prefecture:Yoshinori Yumoto thenAnraku Kanemichi
• Gunma Prefecture:Masataka Ishizata
• Hiroshima Prefecture:Asada Tokunori thenBaron Takatoshi Iwamura thenHattori Ichizo thenAsada Tokunori
• Ibaraki Prefecture:Motohiro Onada thenPrince Kiyoshi Honba
• Ishikawa Prefecture:Shiba Sankarasu
• Iwate Prefecture:Ichizo Hattori thenSuehiro Naokata
• Kagawa Prefecture:Tsunenori Tokuhisa thenRyosuke Ono thenYoshihara Saburo
• Kochi Prefecture:Hiroshi Shikakui
• Kumamoto Prefecture:Kanetake Oura
• Kyoto Prefecture:Utsumi Tadakatsu
• Mie Prefecture:Terumi Tanabe thenYuji Rika
• Miyagi Prefecture:Viscount Kanetake Oura thenKiyoshi Shin
• Miyazaki Prefecture:Senda Sadakatsuki
• Nagano Prefecture:Gondo Ka'nichi
• Niigata Prefecture:Minoru Katsumata
• Oita Prefecture:Shigetoo Sugimoto thenNori Oshikawa
• Okinawa Prefecture:Shigeru Narahara
• Osaka Prefecture:Nobumichi Yamada
• Saga Prefecture:Takeuchi thenYasuhiko Hirayama thenTakeuchi thenSeki Kiyohide
• Saitama Prefecture:Munakata Tadashi thenHanai Hagiwara
• Shiname Prefecture:Hikoji Nakamura thenChuzo Kono
• Tochigi Prefecture:Sento Kiyoshi thenHagino Samon
• Tokyo:Viscount Okabe Nagahon thenKoizuka Furo thenBaron Sangay Takatomi
• Toyama Prefecture:Tsurayuki Ishida thenHiroshi Abe thenKaneoryo Gen
• Yamagata Prefecture:Nori Oshikawa thenSone Shizuo

• January Unknown date – Aconstruction brand,Kumagai Gumi was founded inFukui City.^{[citation needed]}
• January 12 –Ito Hirobumi begins his third term asPrime Minister.
• March 15 –March 1898 Japanese general election
• August 10 –September 1898 Japanese general election
• The first automobile (aPanhard-Levassor) is introduced in Japan.

• February 4 –Shinsui Itō,Nihonga painter (d.1972)
• February 9 –Jūkichi 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 –Kenzō Masaoka, anime creator (d.1988)
• October 17 –Shinichi Suzuki, violinist, (d.1998)
• October 31 –Yoshitoshi Mori, artist (d.1992)
• December 11 –Tarō Shōji, popular song singer (d.1972)
• December 12 –Denji Kuroshima, author (d.1943)
• December 27 –Inejiro Asanuma, politician, leader of theJapan Socialist Party (d.1960)

• November 12 –Nakahama Manjirō, translator and castaway (b.1827)

• 1898 in Japan
• 1890s in Japan
• 1898 by country
• Years of the 19th century in Japan
• 1898 in Asia

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