Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/April/April 2

April 2:

Events

• 1332 - Emperor Godaigo is exiled to Oki Island. (Traditional Japanese Date: Seventh Day of the Third Month, 1332)
• 1908 - Kitasato Shibasaburō and Shiga Kiyoshi form a Cancer Research Society.
• 1922 - Newspapers venture into the weekly magazine business with the launch of the Weekly Asahi and the Sunday Mainichi.
• 1932 - Construction of Ueno Station is completed.
• 1950 - Yoshikawa Eiji begins publishing his revision of The Tale of the Heike in the Weekly Asahi.
• 1951 - Five hundred yen paper bills make their first appearance featuring Iwakura Tomomi.
• 1954 - Famed Austrian conductor Herbert Von Karajan comes to Japan.
• 1993 - The Fukuoka Dome, Japan's first stadium with an open and close roof, opens. It was built at a cost of 76 billion yen and was the home of the Daiei Hawks (now the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks) professional baseball team.

Births

• 1942 - Hiroyuki Sakai, chef
• 1951 - Ayako Okamoto, golfer
• 1951 - Moriteru Ueshiba, martial artist
• 1954 - Susumu Hirasawa, singer-songwriter (P-Model)
• 1971 - Zeebra, rapper (King Giddra)
• 1976 - Daisuke Namikawa, voice actor

Film and television

• 2007 - Delicious Gakuin begins airing on TV Tokyo, starring Takahiro Nishijima, Hiroki Aiba, Ryosuke Miura, Shinjiro Atae, and Yuichi Nakamura
• 2007 - Happy Boys begins airing on TV Tokyo, starring Koji Seto, Kenta Kamakari, Keisuke Kato, Gaku Shindo, and Shugo Nagashima
• 2010 - Daimajin Kanon begins airing on TV Tokyo, starring Yuka Rikuna