1902

Meiji 35 (明治三十五年)

Timeline of 1902

• 1902/1 Hakkôda Mountains Incident - Two-hundred ten soldiers of the 5th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion are caught in a blizzard in the mountains near Aomori city. Only eleven survive.

Other Events of 1902

• The Anglo-Japanese Alliance is entered into.
• "Mainland" system of democratic election of representatives to the National Diet is extended to Hokkaido.
• Meiji Art Society is reorganized as the Pacific Painting Society (Taiheiyô Gakai).
• Military conscription is instituted in the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands.
• A motion picture, "The Spanish-American War," is shown in Okinawa for the first time.
• Okakura Kakuzô's The Ideals of the East is published.
• Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the final shogun, is named kôshaku.
• Western mode of age calculation is officially adopted, though it won't actually come into regular use for another 50 years, roughly.

Births and Deaths

• 1902/10/27 Kanô Washio dies (b. 1839).
• Print artist Azechi Umetarô is born.
• Matsudaira Tadayuki dies (b. 1825).
• Nagatani Nobuatsu, first Meiji period governor of Kyoto, dies (b. 1818).
• Saigô Tsugumichi dies (b. 1843).
• Sano Tsunetami dies.
• Satô Hikogorô dies (b. 1827).

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