← 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: Minoru Katsumata
• Akita Prefecture: Sada Aoyama
• Aomori Prefecture: Nabeshima Miki
• Ehime Prefecture: Shinpei Seki
• Fukui Prefecture: Tsutomu Ishiguro
• Fukuoka Prefecture: Yasujo
• Fukushima Prefecture: Hiraochi Orita
• Gifu Prefecture: Toshi Kozaki
• Gunma Prefecture: Sato Atasesan
• Hiroshima Prefecture: Senda Sadaaki
• Ibaraki Prefecture: Sadanori Yasuda
• Iwate Prefecture: Shoichiro Ishii
• Kanagawa Prefecture: Baron Tadatsu Hayashi
• Kochi Prefecture: Yoshiaki Tonabe
• Kumamoto Prefecture: Yoshiaki Tonabe
• Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Utsumi Tadakatsu
• Mie Prefecture: Ishii Kuni
• Miyagi Prefecture: Matsudaira Masanao
• Miyazaki Prefecture: Teru Tananbe then Tokito Konkyo then Takayoshi Kyoganu
• Nagano Prefecture: Baron Seiichiro Kinashi
• Niigata Prefecture: Shinozaki Goro
• Oita Prefecture: Ryokichi Nishimura
• Okinawa Prefecture: Sadakiyo Osako then Minoru Fukuhara
• Osaka Prefecture: Tateno Tsuyoshi
• Saga Prefecture: Kamata^[who?]
• Saitama Prefecture: Kiyohide Yoshida
• Shimane Prefecture: Sukeo Kabayama
• Tochigi Prefecture: Orita Hirauchi
• Tokyo: Marquis Shigeru Hachisuke
• Toyama Prefecture: Fujishima Masaki
• Yamagata Prefecture: Shibahara Sum

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. 1817)