1892 in Japan explained

Events from the year 1892 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 25 (明治25年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Emperor

Emperor Meiji^[1]

• Prime Minister

• • Matsukata Masayoshi

(until 8 August)

• • Itō Hirobumi

(from 8 August)

Governors

• Aichi Prefecture

Takatoshi Iwamura then Senda Sadaaki then Senda Sadaaki then Yasujo then Tokito Konkyo

• Akita Prefecture: Yasuhiko Hirayama
• Aomori Prefecture: Masa Sawa
• Ehime Prefecture: Katsumata Minoru
• Fukui Prefecture: Nobuaki Makino then Kunizo Arakawa
• Fukuoka Prefecture: Yasujo then Tameharu Yamada
• Fukushima Prefecture: Kiyoshi Watanabe then Yoshio Kusaka
• Gifu Prefecture: Toshi Kozaki
• Gunma Prefecture: Motootoko Nakamura
• Hiroshima Prefecture

Baron Takatoshi Iwamura then Senda Sadaaki

• Ibaraki Prefecture

Shoichiro Ishii then Nobuaki Makino

• Iwate Prefecture: Ichizo Hattori
• Kagawa Prefecture: Masao Tanimori
• Kochi Prefecture: Kanji Maruoka then Ishida Eikichi
• Kumamoto Prefecture

Matsudaira Masanao

• Kyoto Prefecture

Baron Kokudo Kitagaki then Baron Akira Senda

• Mie Prefecture: Shangyi Narukawa
• Miyagi Prefecture

Mamoru Funakoshi

• Miyazaki Prefecture

Takayoshi Kyoganu

• Nagano Prefecture

Asada Tokunori

• Niigata Prefecture

Baron Seung Zhi Kuwata

• Oita Prefecture: Baron Shirane Senitsu
• Okinawa Prefecture

Kanji Maruoka then Shigeru Narahara

• Osaka Prefecture

Nobumichi Yamada

• Saga Prefecture

Sukeo Kabayama then Takaya Nagamine

• Saitama Prefecture

Kanichi Kubota then Tsunao Hayashi

• Shimane Prefecture: Goro Shinozaki
• Tochigi Prefecture: Orita Hirauchi
• Tokyo

Tomita Tetsunosuke

• Toyama Prefecture: Moriyama Shigeru then Tokuhisa Tsunenori
• Yamagata Prefecture: Hasebe Ren

Events

• February 15 - General election
• May 5  - A first issue of Chugoku Shinbun Newspaper published in Hiroshima Prefecture.

Births

• January 25 - Takeo Takagi, admiral (d. 1944)
• February 1 - Kan Shimozawa, novelist (d. 1968)
• February 5 - Shunji Isaki, admiral (d. 1943)
• March 1 - Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, writer (d. 1927)
• March 30 - Sanzo Nosaka, one of the founders of the Japanese Communist Party (d. 1993)
• April 9 - Haruo Satō, novelist and poet (d. 1964)
• June 27 - Yumio Nasu, major general (d. 1942)
• August 11 - Eiji Yoshikawa, writer and novelist (d. 1962)
• August 17 - Tamon Yamaguchi, admiral (d. 1942)
• September 9 - Tsuru Aoki, actress (d. 1961)
• October 3 - Sentarō Ōmori, admiral (d. 1974)
• October 16 - Kiyonao Ichiki, military officer (died 1942)^[2]
• December 15 - Akira Mutō, general (d. 1948)

Deaths

• January 23  - Ueki Emori, revolutionary (b. 1857)
• June 9  - Yoshitoshi, artist (b. 1839)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Meiji emperor of Japan . Encyclopedia Britannica . 27 March 2019 . en.
2. Chen, Peter. "Ichiki Kiyonao". WW2 Database