Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/April/April 2

April 2:

Events
 * 1332 - Emperor Go-Daigo 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
 * 1971 - Zeebra, rapper
 * 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 Kōji Seto, Kenta Kamakari, Keisuke Kato, Gaku Shindo, and Shugo Nagashima
 * 2010 - Daimajin Kanon begins airing on TV Tokyo, starring Yuka Rikuna