1894 in Japan
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This is a list of events in the year 1894 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 27 (ææ²»27å¹´) in the Japanese calendar.
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Incumbents
Governors
- Aichi Prefecture: Tokito Konkyo
- Akita Prefecture: Yasuhiko Hirayama
- Aomori Prefecture: Masa Sawa
- Ehime Prefecture: Katsumata Minoru then Chang Masaya Komaki
- Fukui Prefecture: Kunizo Arakawa
- Fukuoka Prefecture: Kojiro Iwasaki
- Fukushima Prefecture: Yoshio Kusaka
- Gifu Prefecture: Michio Sokabe
- Gunma Prefecture: Motootoko Nakamura
- Hiroshima Prefecture: Baron Nabeshima Miki
- Ibaraki Prefecture: Takasaki
- Iwate Prefecture: Ichizo Hattori
- Kagawa Prefecture: Baron Umashi Obata
- Kochi Prefecture: Ishida Eikichi
- Kumamoto Prefecture: Matsudaira Masanao
- Kyoto Prefecture: Hiroshi Nakai then Chiaki Watanabe
- Mie Prefecture: Shangyi Narukawa
- Miyagi Prefecture: Minoru Katsumata
- Nagano Prefecture: Asada Tokunor
- Niigata Prefecture: Baron Seung Zhi Kuwata
- Oita Prefecture: Tameharu Yamada
- Okinawa Prefecture: Shigeru Narahara
- Osaka Prefecture: Nobumichi Yamada
- Saga Prefecture: Takaya Nagamine then Teru Tanabe
- Saitama Prefecture: Tomi Senketaka
- Shimane Prefecture: Mamoru Funakoshi then Oura Kanetake
- Tochigi Prefecture: Orita Hirauchi then Sato Nobu
- Tokyo: Miura Yasushi
- Toyama Prefecture: Tokuhisa Tsunenori
- Yamagata Prefecture: Hasebe Ren then Shuichi Kinoshita
Events
- July 25 â Battle of Pungdo[2]
- July 28â29 â Battle of Seonghwan[3]
- September 15 â Battle of Pyongyang[3]
- September 17 â Battle of the Yalu River (1894)[2]
- October 24 â Battle of Jiuliancheng[3]
- November 21 â Battle of Lushunkou; Japanese forces storm all China's landward defences by noon the following day.[4]
Births
- January 1 â Shitsu Nakano, super-centenarian (d. 2007)
- April 9 â Keiji Shibazaki, rear admiral (d. 1943)
- April 15 â Kiichi Hasegawa, naval commander (d. 1944)
- April 18 â Kitsuju Ayabe, military commander (d. 1980)
- April 25 â Takeshi Mori, military commander (d. 1945)[5]
- October 21 â Edogawa Ranpo, author and critic (d. 1965)
- November 27 â Konosuke Matsushita, founder of Matsushita Electric (d. 1989)
- date unknown â Masataka Taketsuru, founder of Japan's whisky industry (d. 1979)
Deaths
- May 16 â Kitamura Tokoku, poet, essayist and writer (b. 1868)
- July 6 â Takahashi Yuichi, yÅga painter (b. 1828)