Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/April/April 15

April 15:

Events
 * 1870 - Japan's first shoe factory opens (Traditional Japanese Date: Fifteenth Day of the Third Month, 1870)
 * 1929 - Japan's first train terminal shopping center, the Hankyu Department Store, opens at Umeda Station in Osaka.
 * 1935 - Japan's begins radio broadcasts for schools.
 * 1937 - Helen Keller visits Japan.
 * 1967 - Ryokichi Minobe is elected as Tokyo's first reform governor.
 * 1983 - Tokyo Disneyland opens.

Births
 * 1933 - Kōji Yada (d. 2014), voice actor
 * 1988 - Manami Numakura, voice actress
 * 1991 - Daiki Arioka, actor and singer

Film and television
 * 1996 - Long Vacation begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Takuya Kimura and Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * 2011 - Inu o Kau to Iu Koto begins airing on TV Asahi, starring Ryo Nishikido, Asami Mizukawa, Kokoro Kuge, and Ryutaro Yamasaki
 * 2012 - Ataru begins airing on Tokyo Broadcasting System, starring Masahiro Nakai
 * 2012  - Kazoku no Uta begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Joe Odagiri
 * 2014 - Bitter Blood begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Takeru Satoh and Atsuro Watabe