1887 in Japan

← 1886 1885 1884 1887 in Japan → 1888 1889 1890
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	Other events of 1887 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1887 in Japan.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch: Emperor Meiji^[1]
• Prime Minister: Itō Hirobumi

Governors[]

• Aichi Prefecture: [[]]
• Akita Prefecture: [[]]
• Aomori Prefecture: [[]]
• Ehime Prefecture: [[]]
• Fukui Prefecture: [[]]
• Fukuoka Prefecture: [[]]
• Fukushima Prefecture: [[]]
• Gifu Prefecture: [[]]
• Gunna Prefecture: [[]]
• Hiroshima Prefecture: [[]]
• Ibaraki Prefecture: [[]]
• Ishikawa Prefecture: [[]]
• Iwate Prefecture: [[]]
• Kagawa Prefecture: [[]]
• Kanagawa Prefecture: [[]]
• Kumamoto Prefecture: [[]]
• Kochi Prefecture: [[]]
• Kyoto Prefecture: [[]]
• Mie Prefecture: [[]]
• Miyagi Prefecture: [[]]
• Miyazaki Prefecture: [[]]
• Nagano Prefecture: [[]]
• Nara Prefecture: [[]]
• Niigata Prefecture: [[]]
• Oita Prefecture: [[]]
• Okayama Prefecture: [[]]
• Okinawa Prefecture: [[]]
• Osaka Prefecture: [[]]
• Saga Prefecture: [[]]
• Saitama Prefecture: [[]]
• Shiname Prefecture: [[]]
• Tochigi Prefecture: [[]]
• Tokushima Prefecture: [[]]
• Tokyo: [[]]
• Toyama Prefecture: [[]]
• Yamagata Prefecture: [[]]
• Yamaguchi Prefecture: [[]]

Events[]

• January 22 - Tōkyō Denkō begins selling electric lights.

Births[]

• February 4 – Masaichi Niimi, admiral (d. 1993)
• February 9 – Tsuchida Bakusen, nihonga painter (d. 1936)
• March 25 – Chūichi Nagumo, admiral (d. 1944)
• July 28 – Tetsu Katayama, politician and 33rd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1978)
• November 15 – Hitoshi Ashida, politician and 34th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1959)

Deaths[]

• December 6 – Shimazu Hisamitsu, samurai (b. )

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