1892 in Japan

Events from the year 1892 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 25 (明治25年) in the Japanese calendar.

← 1891 1890 1889 1892 in Japan → 1893 1894 1895
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1892 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Incumbents

• Emperor: Emperor Meiji^[1]
• Prime Minister:
  • Matsukata Masayoshi: (until 8 August)
  • Itō Hirobumi: (from 8 August)

Governors

• Aichi Prefecture: Takatoshi Iwamura then Senda Sadaaki then Senda Sadaaki then Yasujo then Tokito Konkyo
• Akita Prefecture: Yasuhiko Hirayama
• Aomori Prefecture: Masa Sawa
• Ehime Prefecture: Katsumata Minoru
• Fukui Prefecture: Nobuaki Makino then Kunizo Arakawa
• Fukuoka Prefecture: Yasujo then Tameharu Yamada
• Fukushima Prefecture: Kiyoshi Watanabe then Yoshio Kusaka
• Gifu Prefecture: Toshi Kozaki
• Gunma Prefecture: Motootoko Nakamura
• Hiroshima Prefecture: Baron Takatoshi Iwamura then Senda Sadaaki
• Ibaraki Prefecture: Shoichiro Ishii then Nobuaki Makino
• Iwate Prefecture: Ichizo Hattori
• Kagawa Prefecture: Masao Tanimori
• Kochi Prefecture: Kanji Maruoka then Ishida Eikichi
• Kumamoto Prefecture: Matsudaira Masanao
• Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Kokudo Kitagaki then Baron Akira Senda
• Mie Prefecture: Shangyi Narukawa
• Miyagi Prefecture: Mamoru Funakoshi
• Miyazaki Prefecture: Takayoshi Kyoganu
• Nagano Prefecture: Asada Tokunori
• Niigata Prefecture: Baron Seung Zhi Kuwata
• Oita Prefecture: Baron Shirane Senitsu
• Okinawa Prefecture: Kanji Maruoka then Shigeru Narahara
• Osaka Prefecture: Nobumichi Yamada
• Saga Prefecture: Sukeo Kabayama then Takaya Nagamine
• Saitama Prefecture: Kanichi Kubota then Tsunao Hayashi
• Shimane Prefecture: Goro Shinozaki
• Tochigi Prefecture: Orita Hirauchi
• Tokyo: Tomita Tetsunosuke
• Toyama Prefecture: Moriyama Shigeru then Tokuhisa Tsunenori
• Yamagata Prefecture: Hasebe Ren

Events

• February 15 - General election
• May 5 – A first issue of Chugoku Shinbun Newspaper published in Hiroshima Prefecture.^{[citation needed]}

Births

• January 25 - Takeo Takagi, admiral (d. 1944)
• February 1 - Kan Shimozawa, novelist (d. 1968)
• February 5 - Shunji Isaki, admiral (d. 1943)
• March 1 - Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, writer (d. 1927)
• March 30 - Sanzo Nosaka, one of the founders of the Japanese Communist Party (d. 1993)
• April 9 - Haruo Satō, novelist and poet (d. 1964)
• June 27 - Yumio Nasu, major general (d. 1942)
• August 11 - Eiji Yoshikawa, writer and novelist (d. 1962)
• August 17 - Tamon Yamaguchi, admiral (d. 1942)
• September 9 - Tsuru Aoki, actress (d. 1961)
• October 3 - Sentarō Ōmori, admiral (d. 1974)
• October 16 - Kiyonao Ichiki, military officer (died 1942)^[2]
• December 15 - Akira Mutō, general (d. 1948)

Deaths

• January 23 – Ueki Emori, revolutionary (b. 1857)
• June 9 – Yoshitoshi, artist (b. 1839)