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==Timeline of 1908==
==Timeline of 1908==
*1908/1 The ''Okinawa kenjinkai'' of Southern California is established.
*1908/4/28 Over 780 people (including 325 Okinawans) depart [[Kobe]] for Brazil, aboard the ''Kasado-maru''.
*1908/6/18 The ''Kasado-maru'' arrives in Brazil. Its passengers include the first Japanese or Okinawan settlers in Brazil.
==Other Events of 1908==
==Other Events of 1908==
*[[Laurence Binyon|Laurence Binyon's]] ''The Painting of the Far East'' is published.
*The second [[Bunten]] is held.
*The [[Colonial Government Museum]] is established in Taiwan.
*The Hongkou Theatre, the first dedicated movie house in China, is opened in Shanghai by Antonio Ramos.
*[[Makino Shozo|Makino Shôzô]] produces ''[[Honnoji Kassen|Honnôji Kassen]]'', a recording of a [[kabuki]] performance, the first film to be produced in Kyoto.
*Local administrative reforms take place in [[Okinawa prefecture]].
*[[Puyi]] ascends to the throne in China.
*A proposal to place Okinawa and [[Taiwan]] under the same colonial administration spurs furious protest in Okinawa, and ultimately is not implemented.
*[[Tenrikyo|Tenri-kyô]] is officially recognized as an accepted [[Shinto]] sect.
===Births and Deaths===
===Births and Deaths===
*1908/3/23 [[Durham Stevens]] dies.
*1908/3/23 [[Durham Stevens]] dies.
*[[Empress Dowager Cixi]] dies (b. [[1835]]).
*[[Ernest Fenollosa]] dies (b. [[1853]]).
*[[Ernest Fenollosa]] dies (b. [[1853]]).
*[[Hashimoto Gaho|Hashimoto Gahô]] dies (b. [[1835]]).
*[[Hashimoto Gaho|Hashimoto Gahô]] dies (b. [[1835]]).
*''[[Nihonga]]'' painter [[Higashiyama Kaii]] is born.
*[[Iwai Tatsumi]], 4th [[Chief of Home Affairs (Taiwan)]], dies (b. [[1868]]).
*[[Kunikida Doppo]] dies (b. [[1871]]).
*Historian [[George McCune]] is born (d. 1948).
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