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)