Events from the year 1892 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 25 (明治25年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents Emperor: Emperor Meiji 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.
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)Chen, Peter. "Ichiki Kiyonao". WW2 Database December 15 - Akira Mutō, general (d. 1948)
Deaths January 23 – Ueki Emori, revolutionary (b. 1857) June 9 – Yoshitoshi, artist (b. 1839)
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