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.

Incumbents

 * Emperor: Emperor Meiji
 * 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
 * July 28–29 – Battle of Seonghwan
 * 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.

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)
 * 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)