1906

Meiji 39 (明治三十九年)

Timeline of 1906

• 1906/1/7 The first Saionji administration.
• 1906/2/1 Japanese Resident-General of Korea opens.
• 1906/2/24 The first Japan Socialist Party rally.
• 1906/3/20 Imperial Library opens.
• 1906/3/25 Shimazaki Tôson publishes Hakai.
• 1906/5/1 Japanese consulate opens in Andong, Manchuria.
• 1906/5/9 Kita Ikki publishes The Theory of Japan's National Polity and Pure Socialism.
• 1906/6/1 Cession of Southern Karafuto from Russia.(Portsmouth Treaty)
• 1906/6 Japan is given rights in the South Manchuria Railway Company.
• 1906/8/18 Laborers strike at Kure Naval Arsenal.
• 1906/10 Yamagata Aritomo Imperial defence policy plan.

Other Events of 1906

• Benkyôdô Candy Factory opens in San Francisco.
• Makino Nobuaki becomes Minister of Education.
• Okakura Kakuzô's The Book of Tea is published.
• Dai-Nihon-shi, begun by Tokugawa Mitsukuni in 1657, is completed.
• Kondô Yoshisuke publishes Shinsengumi ôji jissen dansho.
• Natsume Sôseki's Botchan is published.
• Okinawan emigration to Hawaii peaks, with 4,467 people leaving Okinawa and/or arriving in Hawaii this year.
• Prince Arthur visits Japan to officially confer the Order of the Garter upon the Meiji Emperor, on behalf of King Edward VII.
• The first public library in Okinawa opens in Nago.
• The first public museum in China opens in Nantong.
• Pope Pius X asks the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) to establish a university in Japan. (Sophia University opens in 1913.)
• Ryûkyû Shimpô becomes a daily newspaper.
• A restoration/renovation project is begun on the Great Buddha Hall at Tôdai-ji, which is completed in 1913.
• Kôjirô Tomita arrives in the US.
• The city of San Francisco eliminates Japanese children from public schools.
• San Francisco Earthquake destroys many public records, creating the opportunity for Chinese "paper sons" (i.e. Chinese attempting to immigrate to the US with false documentation).

Births and Deaths

• British book collector Frank Hawley is born (d. 1961).
• Art dealer Hayashi Tadamasa dies (b. 1853).
• Kodama Gentarô, 4th Governor-General of Taiwan, dies (b. 1852).
• Artist Kubota Beisen dies (b. 1852).
• Puyi is born (d. 1967).
• Scholar Shunzô Sakamaki is born (d. 1973).
• Artist Yamamoto Hôsui dies (b. 1850).

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