Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/May/May 22

May 22:

Events

• 2012 - Tokyo Skytree is opened to public. It is the tallest tower in world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth, after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).

Births

• 1834 - Niwa Nagakuni (d. 1904), daimyo
• 1859 - Tsubouchi Shōyō (d. 1935), author, playwright, and educator
• 1885 - Kansuke Naka (d. 1965), novelist
• 1885 - Soemu Toyoda (d. 1957), admiral
• 1911 - Minoru Kawabata (d. 2001), Japanese-American painter and academic
• 1954 - Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1956 - Shinji Morisue, gymnast
• 1960 - Hideaki Anno, animator, director, and screenwriter
• 1980 - Rena Tanaka, actress and television personality
• 1984 - Keita Nakamura, mixed martial artist
• 1985 - Tao Okamoto, model and actress
• 1985 - Hideaki Takeda, footballer
• 1992 - Chinami Tokunaga, singer