← 1883 1882 1881 1884 in Japan → 1885 1886 1887
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	Other events of 1884 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1884 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Emperor Meiji^[1]
• Empress consort: Empress Shōken

Governors

• Aichi Prefecture: Renpei Kunisada
• Akita Prefecture: Akagawa
• Aomori Prefecture: Kyusei Fukushima
• Ehime Prefecture: Shinpei Seki
• Fukui Prefecture: Tsutomu Ishiguro
• Fukushima Prefecture: Michitsume Mishima
• Gifu Prefecture: Toshi Kozaki
• Gunma Prefecture: Katori Yoshihiko
• Hiroshima Prefecture: Senda Sadaaki
• Ibaraki Prefecture: Hitomi Katsutaro
• Iwate Prefecture: Korekiyo Shima then Shoichiro Ishii
• Kanagawa Prefecture: Baron Tadatsu Hayashi
• Kochi Prefecture: Yoshiaki Tonabe
• Kumamoto Prefecture: Yoshiaki Tonabe
• Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Utsumi Tadakatsu
• Mie Prefecture: Sadamedaka Iwamura then Baron Utsumi Tadakatsu
• Miyagi Prefecture: Matsudaira Masanao
• Miyazaki Prefecture: Teru Tananbe
• Nagano Prefecture: Makoto Ono then Baron Seiichiro Kinashi
• Niigata Prefecture: Nagayama Sheng Hui
• Oita Prefecture: Ryokichi Nishimura
• Osaka Prefecture: Tateno Tsuyoshi
• Saga Prefecture: Kamata^[who?]
• Saitama Prefecture: Kiyohide Yoshida
• Shimane Prefecture: Tamechika Fujikawa
• Tochigi Prefecture: Mishi Michitsune
• Tokyo: Earl Kensho Yoshikawa
• Toyama Prefecture: Kunishige Masafuni
• Yamagata Prefecture: Orita Hirauchi

Events

• November - Chichibu Incident
• Unknown date – Yamada Electronic Wire Manufacturing, as predecessor of Furukawa Electronic Work has founded.^{[page needed]}

Births

• January 1 - Chikuhei Nakajima (d. 1949), naval officer, engineer, and politician, founded Nakajima Aircraft Company
• January 4 - Gyosaku Morozumi, (d. 1963), general in the Imperial Japanese Army
• January 14 - Tetsuzan Nagata, (d. 1935), general in the Imperial Japanese Army
• February 22 - Tamaki Miura (d. 1946), operatic soprano
• April 4 - Isoroku Yamamoto (d. 1943), Marshal Admiral of the Navy and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II
• December 30 - Hideki Tojo (d. 1948), leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan

Deaths

• Oura Okei (b. 1828), businesswoman