1894 in Japan

none June 2014 1894 Japan Template:Year in Japan: Flag of Japan (1870–1999).svg 80px Other events of 1894 History of Japan Timeline Years This is a list of events in the year 1894 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 27 (明治27年) in the Japanese calendar. Incumbents Emperor: Emperor MeijiMeiji emperor of Japan https://www.britannica.com/biography/Meiji Encyclopedia Britannica 27 March 2019 en Prime Minister: Itō Hirobumi 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 – Battle of PungdoStewart William Admirals of the World: A Biographical Dictionary, 1500 to the Present 2009 McFarland 9780786438099 312 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZFeQBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA312 en July 28–29 – Battle of SeonghwanWar 2009 Dorling Kindersley Limited 9781405347785 452 https://books.google.com/books?id=8Llw8JSZEXYC&pg=PA452 en September 15 – Battle of Pyongyang September 17 – Battle of the Yalu River (1894) October 24 – Battle of Jiuliancheng November 21 – Battle of Lushunkou; Japanese forces storm all China's landward defences by noon the following day. Paine S.C.M. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895: Perception, Power, and Primacy Cambridge University Press 2003 0-521-61745-6 197–213 Births January 1 – Shitsu Nakano, super-centenarian (d. 2007) April 9 – Keiji Shibazaki, rear admiral (d. 1943) April 15 – Kiichi Hasegawa, naval commander (d. 1944) April 18 – Kitsuju Ayabe, military commander (d. 1980) April 25 – Takeshi Mori, military commander (d. 1945)Brooks, Lester (1968). Behind Japan's Surrender: The Secret Struggle That Ended an Empire. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company October 21 – Edogawa Ranpo, author and critic (d. 1965) November 27 – Konosuke Matsushita, founder of Matsushita Electric (d. 1989) date unknown – Masataka Taketsuru, founder of Japan's whisky industry (d. 1979) Deaths May 16 – Kitamura Tokoku, poet, essayist and writer (b. 1868) July 6 – Takahashi Yuichi, yōga painter (b. 1828) References 1894 in Category:1894 by country Category:1890s in Japan Category:Years of the 19th century in Japan Category:1894 in Asia