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1895 in Japan

Events in the year 1895 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 28 (Ã¦ÂÂÃ¦Â²Â»28Ã¥Â¹Â´) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

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 23Ã¢ÂÂ26 - Pescadores Campaign (1895)
May 2 – KiyÃÂ Saving Bank, as predecessor of KiyÃÂ Bank was established in Wakayama Prefecture.
May 29-October 21 - Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895)
June 2Ã¢ÂÂ3 - Battle of Keelung
June 11-August 2 - Hsinchu Campaign
August 27 - Battle of Baguashan
September 25 – Bank of Ashikaga (Ã¨Â¶Â³Ã¥ÂÂ©Ã©ÂÂÃ¨Â¡Â) was established in Tochigi Prefecture.
October 9 - Battle of Chiayi
October 11 - Battle of Chiatung
October 19 – Nekata Bank (Ã¦Â Â¹Ã¦ÂÂ¹Ã©ÂÂÃ¨Â¡Â), 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 ItÃÂ, 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 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)
HeihachirÃÂ Kojima, photographer
KeiichirÃÂ Yoshino, photographer

Deaths

January 15 - Prince Arisugawa Taruhito
February 9 - ÃÂdera Yasuzumi
February 20 - KÃÂno Bairei
April 20 - KÃÂno Togama
November 5 - Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa

References