1871 in Japan

← 1870 1869 1868 1871 in Japan → 1872 1873 1874
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	Other events of 1871 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1871 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Emperor Meiji

Governors

• Aomori Prefecture: Hiromichi Noda (September 7-November 5), J. Hishida (starting November 7)
• Fukui Prefecture: Kotobuki Murata
• Fukushima Prefecture: Tomoharu Kiyooka
• Gifu Prefecture: Joren Hasegawa
• Gunma Prefecture: Sada Aoyama
• Hiroshima Prefecture: Kono Toshikama (August 15-November 15), Senbon Hisanobu (November 15-November 27), Kono Toshikama (November 27-December 26), Date Muneoki (starting December 26)
• Ibaraki Prefecture:
  • July 13-December 9: Tesshu Yamaoka
  • starting December 9: Yamaguchi (starting November 2)
• Iwate Prefecture: Korekiyo Shima (starting November 2)
• Kagawa Prefecture: Mohei Hayashi (starting November 15)
• Kochi Prefecture: Yuzo Hayashi (starting November 15)
• Kyoto Prefecture: Nobuatsu
• Nagano Prefecture: Takaishi Wado (until 1871), Tachiki Kenzen (starting November 20)
• Niigata Prefecture: Hirimatsu (starting November 20)
• Oita Prefecture: Kei Morishita (starting November 14)
• Osaka Prefecture: Yotsutsuji Nishi
• Saga Prefecture: Sadao Koga (starting November 14)
• Saitama Prefecture: Morihide Nomura (starting November 13)
• Shiname Prefecture: Masami Terada (starting November 14)
• Tochigi Prefecture: Miki Nabeshima (starting November 13)
• Tokyo: Osamu Mibo (until September 7), Yuri Kousei (starting September 7)
• Toyama Prefecture:
  • until August: Earl Maeda
  • August-December: Obata Nobutomo
• Yamagata Prefecture: ......

Events

• January 28 - Japan's first Japanese-language daily newspaper, the Yokohama Mainichi Shinbun, is printed in Yokohama. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eighth Day of the Twelfth Month, 1870)
• The Yen was introduced on June 27