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Events in the year 1899 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 32 (明治32年) in the Japanese calendar.

• Emperor: Emperor Meiji

• Prime Minister: Yamagata Aritomo

• Aichi Prefecture: Mori Mamoru

• Akita Prefecture: Takeda Chiyosaburo

• Aomori Prefecture: Munakata Tadashi

• Ehime Prefecture: Tai Neijro

• Fukui Prefecture: Saburo Iwao

• Fukushima Prefecture: Kimumichi Nagusami then Arita Yoshisuke

• Gifu Prefecture: Tanaka Takamichi then Kawaji Toshikyo

• Gunma Prefecture: Suehiro Naokata

• Hiroshima Prefecture: Asada Tokunori

• Ibaraki Prefecture: Prince Kiyoshi Honba then Fumi Kashiwada

• Iwate Prefecture: Ganri Hojo

• Kagawa Prefecture: Yoshihara Saburo

• Kochi Prefecture: Tadashi Tanigawa

• Kumamoto Prefecture: Tokuhisa Tsunenori

• Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Utsumi Tadakatsu then Baron Shoichi Omori

• Mie Prefecture: Yuji Rika then Duke Isaburo Yamagata then Arakawa Yoshitaro

• Miyagi Prefecture: Motohiro Onoda

• Miyazaki Prefecture: Sukeo Kabawaya

• Nagano Prefecture: Oshikawa Sokkichi

• Niigata Prefecture: Minoru Katsumata

• Oita Prefecture: Marques Okubo Toshi Takeshi

• Okinawa Prefecture: Shigeru Narahara

• Osaka Prefecture: Tadashini Kikuchi

• Saga Prefecture: Seki Kiyohide

• Saitama Prefecture: Marquis Okubo Toshi Takeshi

• Shiname Prefecture: Matsunaga Takeyoshi

• Tochigi Prefecture: Korechika

• Tokyo: Baron Sangay Takatomi

• Toyama Prefecture: Kaneoryo Gen

• Yamagata Prefecture: Baron Seki Yoshiomi

• February 1 – Telephone service begins between Tokyo and Osaka.

• February 7 – Keiō and Waseda become Japan's first private universities.

• February 13 – The income tax law is promulgated.

• March 1 – Sankyo Pharmaceutical established in Yokohama, as predecessor of Daiichi Sankyo.

• March 4 – Japan passes its first copyright law.

• March 9 – Japan promulgates its commercial code, the Shōhō, to take effect on June 16.

• July 15 – Japan's first comprehensive copyright law takes effect and, on the same day, Japan agrees to join the Berne Convention.

• July 17 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.

• November – Momijigari, the oldest extant Japanese film, is shot an open space behind the Kabuki-za in Tokyo.

• Unknown date – Morinaga Confectionery was founded, as predecessor name was Morinaga Western Confectionery.

• Unknown date – The Hokkaido Former Aborigines Protection Act is enacted by the Imperial Diet

• January 20 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, television engineer, creator of the world's first all-electronic television receiver (d. 1990)

• February 10 – Suihō Tagawa, manga artist (d. 1989)

• February 13 – Yuriko Miyamoto, novelist (d. 1951)

• March 7 – Jun Ishikawa, writer (d. 1987)

• June 11 – Yasunari Kawabata, writer, novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature (d. 1972)

• August 1 – Saburō Matsukata, journalist, businessman and mountaineer (d. 1973)

• August 5 – Sakae Tsuboi, novelist and poet (d. 1967)

• September 1 – Takuma Nishimura, general (d. 1951)

• September 8 – Akiko Seki, soprano (d. 1973)

• October 1 – Matsutarō Kawaguchi, novelist, playwright and film producer (d. 1985)

• November 7 – Daisuke Nanba, communist activist (d. 1924)

• December 3 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)

• Unknown – Genkei Masamune, botanist, (d. 1993)

• January 21 – Katsu Kaishū, statesman and naval engineer (b. 1823)

• May 11 – Kawakami Soroku. General (b. 1848)

• September 26 – Ōki Takatō, statesman, Mayor of Tokyo (b. 1832)

• December 26 – Harada Naojirō, yōga-style painter (b. 1863)