Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/April/April 22

April 22:

Events
 * 1870 - The Tokyo government issues a permit to rickshaw inventors Izumi Yosuke, Suzuki Tokujiro and Takayama Kosuke to build and sell them. (Japanese Date: Twenty-second Day of the Third Month, 1870)
 * 1901 - Japanese braille is first published.
 * 1925 - Peace Preservation Law of 1925 is publicly announced.
 * 1946 - Japanese comic-strip Sazae-san is first published in the newspaper Fukunichi Shimbun.
 * 1947 - The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department begin testing the polygraph.
 * 1950 - Fujiko Yamamoto wins the first The Miss Japan Grand Prix Pageant.
 * 1981 - Mother Teresa visits Japan for the first time.

Births
 * 1912 - Kaneto Shindo (d. 2012), director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1938 - Issey Miyake, fashion designer
 * 1954 - Jōji Nakata, voice actor
 * 1971 - Daisuke Enomoto, businessman
 * 1982 - Noriko Shitaya, voice actress