Events in the year 1879 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 12 in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents Monarch: Emperor Meiji
Governors Aichi Prefecture: Taihe Yasujo Akita Prefecture: Ishida Eikichi Aomori Prefecture: J. Hishida then Hidenori Yamada Ehime Prefecture: Baron Takatoshi Iwamura Fukushima Prefecture: Taihe Yasujo Gifu Prefecture: Toshi Kozaki Gunma Prefecture: Katori Yoshihiko Hiroshima Prefecture: Benzō Fujii Ibaraki Prefecture: Baron Tatsutaro Nomura then Hitomi Katsutaro Iwate Prefecture: Korekiyo Shima Kumamoto Prefecture: Takaaki Tomioka Kochi Prefecture: Viscount Kunitake Watanabe then Baron Kokuritsu Kitagaki Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Masanao Makimura Mie Prefecture: Sadamedaka Iwamura Miyagi Prefecture: Baron Matsudaira Masanao Nagano Prefecture: Narasaki Hiroshi Niigata Prefecture: Nagayama Sheng Hui Oita Prefecture: Shinichi Kagawa then Ryokichi Nishimura Osaka Prefecture: Viscount Norobu Watanabe Saitama Prefecture: Tasuke Shirane Shimane Prefecture: Jiro Sakai Tochigi Prefecture: Miki Nabeshima Tokyo: Masataka Kusumoto then Matsuda Michiyuki Yamagata Prefecture: Viscount Mishima Michitsune
Births January 18 – Tane Ikai, super-centenarian (d. 1995) August 24 – Rentarō Taki, pianist (d. 1903) August 31 – Taishō, 123rd Emperor of Japan (d. 1926) October 1 – Hasegawa Shigure, playwright (d. 1941) December 3 – Kafū Nagai, author, playwright, essayist, and diarist (d. 1959)
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