Events in the year 1899 in Japan . It corresponds to Meiji 32 (明治32年) in the Japanese calendar .
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 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 )
^ "Meiji | emperor of Japan" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 27 March 2019 .
^ "Commercial and Corporate Law in Japan", by Harald Baum and Eiji Takahashi, in History of Law in Japan Since 1868 (Brill, 2005) p. 355
^ Irie, Yoshiro (2009). "Saiko no Nihon eiga ni tsuite" (PDF) . Tōkyō Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan Kenkyū Kiyō (in Japanese) (13). National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo: 67. ISSN 0914-7489 . Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 January 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2014 .
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