1894 in Japan

Decades:	1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s;
See also:	Other events of 1894; History of Japan; Timeline; Years;

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

July 25 – Battle of Pungdo^[2]
July 28–29 – Battle of Seonghwan^[3]
September 15 – Battle of Pyongyang^[3]
September 17 – Battle of the Yalu River (1894)^[2]
October 24 – Battle of Jiuliancheng^[3]
November 21 – Battle of Lushunkou; Japanese forces storm all China's landward defences by noon the following day.^[4]

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)

^ "Meiji | emperor of Japan". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
^ ^a ^b Stewart, William (2009). Admirals of the World: A Biographical Dictionary, 1500 to the Present. McFarland. p. 312. ISBN 9780786438099.
^ ^a ^b ^c War. Dorling Kindersley Limited. 2009. p. 452. ISBN 9781405347785.
^ Paine, S.C.M. (2003). The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: Perception, Power, and Primacy. Cambridge University Press. pp. 197–213. ISBN 0-521-61745-6.
^ Brooks, Lester (1968). Behind Japan's Surrender: The Secret Struggle That Ended an Empire. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company