1895 in Japan

Events in the year 1895 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 28 (明治28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: Chang Masaya Komaki
 * Fukui Prefecture: Kunizo Arakawa
 * Fukuoka Prefecture: Kojiro Iwasaki
 * Fukushima Prefecture: Yoshio Kusaka then Yasutaro Hara
 * Gifu Prefecture: Michio Sokabe then Sukeo Kabayama
 * Gunma Prefecture: Motootoko Nakamura
 * Hiroshima Prefecture: Baron Nabeshima Miki
 * Ibaraki Prefecture: Takasaki then Egi Kazuyuki
 * Iwate Prefecture: Ichizo Hattori
 * Kagawa Prefecture: Baron Umashi Obata then Ichizo Fukano
 * Kochi Prefecture: Ishida Eikichi
 * Kumamoto Prefecture: Matsudaira Masanao
 * Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Nobumichi Yamada
 * Mie Prefecture: Shangyi Narukawa
 * Miyagi Prefecture: Minoru Katsumata
 * Nagano Prefecture: Asada Tokunori
 * Niigata Prefecture: Baron Seung Zhi Kuwata
 * Oita Prefecture: Tameharu Yamada
 * Okinawa Prefecture: Shigeru Narahara
 * Osaka Prefecture: Utsumi Tadakatsu
 * Saga Prefecture: Teru Tanabe
 * Saitama Prefecture: Tomi Senketaka
 * Shiname Prefecture: Michio Sokabe
 * Tochigi Prefecture: Sato Nobu
 * Tokyo: Miura Yasushi
 * Toyama Prefecture: Tokuhisa Tsunenori
 * Yamagata Prefecture: Shuichi Kinoshita

Events

 * January 20-February 12 - Battle of Weihaiwei
 * January 31 - The Kyoto Electric Railway, the first electric railway in Japan, begins operation.
 * March 4 - Battle of Yingkou
 * March 23–26 - Pescadores Campaign (1895)
 * May 2 – Kiyō Saving Bank, as predecessor of Kiyō Bank was established in Wakayama Prefecture.
 * May 29-October 21 - Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895)
 * June 2–3 - Battle of Keelung
 * June 11-August 2 - Hsinchu Campaign
 * August 27 - Battle of Baguashan
 * September 25 – Bank of Ashikaga (足利銀行) was established in Tochigi Prefecture.
 * October 9 - Battle of Chiayi
 * October 11 - Battle of Chiatung
 * October 19 – Nekata Bank (根方銀行), as predecessor of Suruga Bank was founded in Shizuoka Prefecture.
 * November 26 - Battle of Changhsing
 * Unknown date – Genzo Shimazu Battery Manufacturing, as predecessor of GS Yuasa was founded in Kyoto.

Births

 * January 19 - Isamu Cho, army officer (d. 1945)
 * January 21 - Noe Itō, anarchist and feminist (d. 1923)
 * February 23 - Iwao Matsuda (general) (d. 1979)
 * March 2 - Sanji Iwabuchi, admiral (d. 1945)
 * April 26 - Enzo Matsunaga, writer (d. 1948)
 * September 18 - Tomoji Tanabe, super cententarian (d. 2009)
 * September 25 - Masafumi Arima, admiral (d. 1944)
 * November 17 - Unichi Hiratsuka, printmaker (d. 1997)
 * December 11 - Kiyoto Kagawa, admiral (d. 1943)
 * December 25 - Mitsuharu Kaneko, poet and painter (d. 1975)
 * Heihachirō Kojima, photographer
 * Keiichirō Yoshino, photographer

Deaths

 * January 15 - Prince Arisugawa Taruhito
 * February 9 - Ōdera Yasuzumi
 * February 20 - Kōno Bairei
 * April 20 - Kōno Togama
 * November 5 - Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa