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