diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.txt
index 649629714c3b1..34eb5d8d7ed0f 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.txt
@@ -577,6 +577,7 @@ Removal of prior version deprecations/changes
 - Removed the ``pandas.formats.style`` shim for :class:`pandas.io.formats.style.Styler` (:issue:`16059`)
 - :meth:`Categorical.searchsorted` and :meth:`Series.searchsorted` have renamed the ``v`` argument to ``value`` (:issue:`14645`)
 - :meth:`TimedeltaIndex.searchsorted`, :meth:`DatetimeIndex.searchsorted`, and :meth:`PeriodIndex.searchsorted` have renamed the ``key`` argument to ``value`` (:issue:`14645`)
+- Removal of the previously deprecated module ``pandas.json`` (:issue:`19944`)
 
 .. _whatsnew_0240.performance:
 
diff --git a/pandas/__init__.py b/pandas/__init__.py
index 97ae73174c09c..f91d0aa84e0ff 100644
--- a/pandas/__init__.py
+++ b/pandas/__init__.py
@@ -61,9 +61,6 @@
 # extension module deprecations
 from pandas.util._depr_module import _DeprecatedModule
 
-json = _DeprecatedModule(deprmod='pandas.json',
-                         moved={'dumps': 'pandas.io.json.dumps',
-                                'loads': 'pandas.io.json.loads'})
 parser = _DeprecatedModule(deprmod='pandas.parser',
                            removals=['na_values'],
                            moved={'CParserError': 'pandas.errors.ParserError'})
diff --git a/pandas/json.py b/pandas/json.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 16d6580c87951..0000000000000
--- a/pandas/json.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# flake8: noqa
-
-import warnings
-warnings.warn("The pandas.json module is deprecated and will be "
-              "removed in a future version. Please import from "
-              "pandas.io.json instead", FutureWarning, stacklevel=2)
-from pandas._libs.json import dumps, loads
diff --git a/pandas/tests/api/test_api.py b/pandas/tests/api/test_api.py
index bf9e14b427015..199700b304a4e 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/api/test_api.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/api/test_api.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class TestPDApi(Base):
            'util', 'options', 'io']
 
     # these are already deprecated; awaiting removal
-    deprecated_modules = ['parser', 'json', 'lib', 'tslib']
+    deprecated_modules = ['parser', 'lib', 'tslib']
 
     # misc
     misc = ['IndexSlice', 'NaT']
@@ -173,13 +173,6 @@ def test_get_store(self):
                 s.close()
 
 
-class TestJson(object):
-
-    def test_deprecation_access_func(self):
-        with catch_warnings(record=True):
-            pd.json.dumps([])
-
-
 class TestParser(object):
 
     def test_deprecation_access_func(self):