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

References

1. First Sino-Japanese War
2. Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895)
3. Republic of Formosa
4. Taiwanese Resistance to the Japanese Invasion (1895)
5. Japan
6. 1895
7. Treaty of Shimonoseki
8. Japanese opium policy in Taiwan (1895–1945)
9. Battle of Keelung (1895)
10. Battle of Weihaiwei
11. Triple Intervention
12. Japanese colonial empire
13. Taiwan under Japanese rule
14. Pescadores campaign (1895)
15. Empire of Japan
16. Winchester Model 1895
17. Capitulation of Tainan
18. History of Japan
19. Battle of the Yalu River (1894)
20. List of territories acquired by the Empire of Japan