1894 in Japan
This is a list of events in the year 1894 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 27 in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
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
- April 9 - Keiji Shibazaki, rear admiral
- April 15 - Kiichi Hasegawa, naval commander
- April 18 - Kitsuju Ayabe, military commander
- April 25 - Takeshi Mori, military commander
- October 21 - Edogawa Ranpo, author and critic
- November 27 - Konosuke Matsushita, founder of Matsushita Electric
- date unknown - Masataka Taketsuru, founder of Japan's whisky industry
Deaths
- May 16 - Kitamura Tokoku, poet, essayist and writer
- July 6 - Takahashi Yuichi, yōga painter