Year in Japan
1892 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Meiji period (明治時代, 1868 – 1912).
Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 25 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 芥川龍之介 · Journalist — Japanese writer (1892–1927)
- Tamon Yamaguchi 山口多聞 · Military officer — admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy
- Shoichi Ichikawa 市川正一 · Journalist — Japanese journalist (1892-1945)
Reading the year 1892 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1892 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 25 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".
The year itself is read 1892年 (1892ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 19th century for its neighbours.