1894 in Japan

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.

← 1893 1892 1891 1894 in Japan → 1895 1896 1897
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1894 History of Japan Timeline Years

Incumbents

• Emperor: Emperor Meiji^[1]
• 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 Pungdo^[2]
• July 28–29 – Battle of Seonghwan^[3]
• September 15 – Battle of Pyongyang^[3]
• September 17 – Battle of the Yalu River (1894)^[2]
• October 24 – Battle of Jiuliancheng^[3]
• November 21 – Battle of Lushunkou; Japanese forces storm all China's landward defences by noon the following day.^[4]

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)^[5]
• 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)