1892 in Japan

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

Incumbents

 * Emperor: Emperor Meiji
 * 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)
 * December 15 - Akira Mutō, general (d. 1948)

Deaths

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