1894 in Japan explained

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 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
• 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.^[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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Meiji emperor of Japan . Encyclopedia Britannica . 27 March 2019 . en.
2. Book: Stewart. William. Admirals of the World: A Biographical Dictionary, 1500 to the Present. 2009. McFarland. 9780786438099. 312. en.
3. Book: War. 2009. Dorling Kindersley Limited. 9781405347785. 452. en.
4. Book: 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 .
5. Brooks, Lester (1968). Behind Japan's Surrender: The Secret Struggle That Ended an Empire. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company