1895 in Japan

Events in the year 1895 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 28 (明治28年) in the Japanese calendar.

← 1894 1893 1892 1895 in Japan → 1896 1897 1898
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1895 History of Japan Timeline Years

Incumbents

• Emperor: Emperor Meiji^[1]
• 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.^[2]
• 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.^[3]
• 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.^[4]
• November 26 - Battle of Changhsing
• Unknown date – Genzo Shimazu Battery Manufacturing, as predecessor of GS Yuasa was founded in Kyoto.^{[citation needed]}

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