2022 in Japan

• Aichi Prefecture: Hideaki Omura
• Akita Prefecture: Norihisa Satake
• Aomori Prefecture: Shingo Mimura
• Chiba Prefecture: Toshihito Kumagai
• Ehime Prefecture: Tokihiro Nakamura
• Fukui Prefecture: Tatsuji Sugimoto
• Fukuoka Prefecture: Seitaro Hattori
• Fukushima Prefecture: Masao Uchibori
• Gifu Prefecture: Hajime Furuta
• Gunma Prefecture: Ichita Yamamoto
• Hiroshima Prefecture: Hidehiko Yuzaki
• Hokkaido: Naomichi Suzuki
• Hyogo Prefecture: Motohiko Saitō
• Ibaraki Prefecture: Kazuhiko Ōigawa
• Ishikawa: Masanori Tanimoto
• Iwate Prefecture: Takuya Tasso
• Kagawa Prefecture: Keizō Hamada
• Kagoshima Prefecture: Kōichi Shiota
• Kanagawa Prefecture: Yuji Kuroiwa
• Kumamoto Prefecture: Ikuo Kabashima
• Kochi Prefecture: Seiji Hamada
• Kyoto Prefecture: Takatoshi Nishiwaki
• Mie Prefecture: Eikei Suzuki
• Miyagi Prefecture: Yoshihiro Murai
• Miyazaki Prefecture: Shunji Kōno
• Nagano Prefecture: Shuichi Abe
• Nagasaki Prefecture: Hōdō Nakamura
• Nara Prefecture: Shōgo Arai
• Niigata Prefecture: Hideyo Hanazumi
• Oita Prefecture: Katsusada Hirose
• Okayama Prefecture: Ryuta Ibaragi
• Okinawa Prefecture: Denny Tamaki
• Osaka Prefecture: Ichirō Matsui
• Saga Prefecture: Yoshinori Yamaguchi
• Saitama Prefecture: Motohiro Ōno
• Shiga Prefecture: Taizō Mikazuki
• Shimame Prefecture: Tatsuya Maruyama
• Shizuoka Prefecture: Heita Kawakatsu
• Tochigi Prefecture: Tomikazu Fukuda
• Tokushima Prefecture: Kamon Iizumi
• Tokyo Prefecture: Yuriko Koike
• Tottori Prefecture: Shinji Hirai
• Toyama Prefecture: Hachiro Nitta
• Wakayama Prefecture: Yoshinobu Nisaka
• Yamagata Prefecture: Mieko Yoshimura
• Yamaguchi Prefecture: Tsugumasa Muraoka
• Yamanashi Prefecture: Kotaro Nagasaki

• January and February – 2022 Winter Storm and heavy snow in Japan. There were at least 93 human fatalities and 1,580 injuries, according to Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
• January 15 – According to a Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department report, a 17-year-old student attacked 3 people with a knife outside of University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo[1]
• January 22 – According to USGS report, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit near costal Saiki, Oita, southeastern Kyushu Island, followed by aftershocks. 13 people were wounded according to the Japan Fire and Disasters Management Agency.[2]

Japanese athletes compete in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

• February 11 – A rice cracker confectionery manufacturing factory caught fire in Murakami, Niigata Prefecture, and six factory workers died.[3]

• March 16 – 2022 Fukushima earthquake
• March 27 – A submarine volcano hit on Funka-asane, North Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, where 23,000 foot (7,000 meters) ash hit on nearby area, onto next day, according to Japan Meteorological Agency official confirmed report.

• April 3 – June 29 – A Maedachi Honzon major relgious event (善光寺御開帳) start in Zenko-ji, Nagano Prefecture, original date period for April 4 to May 30, 2021, due affective for COVID-19 pandemic prevent and postponed.
• April 10 – In Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher Rōki Sasaki throws a perfect game, the first in 28 years and the 16th in NPB history. Sasaki tied an existing NPB record by striking out 19 batters, and set a new record by striking out 13 consecutive batters.[4]
• April 21 – Japan's tallest skyscraper, the 325-meter Toranonomon Azabudai Hills Tower was topped-out during the ceremony, surpassing the 300-meter Abeno Harukas in Osaka, and the fictional 316-meter One GJSA Tower in Tokyo. Until the 390-meter Tokyo Torch Tower (located in nearby Tokyo Station to be completed in 2027) will surpass the current building for the next decade.[5]

• January 8 – Kazuo Takahashi, politician (b. 1930)
• January 9
  • Toshiki Kaifu, politician (b. 1931)
  • Akira Inoue, film director (b. 1928)
• January 10 – Shinji Mizushima, manga artist (b. 1939)
• January 29 – Kohei Yoshiyuki, photographer (b. 1946)

• February 1 – Shintaro Ishihara, politician and writer (b. 1932)
• February 8 – Toshiya Ueda, voice actor (b. 1933)
• February 20 – Teruhiko Saigō, singer and actor (b. 1947)
• February 26 – Yūsuke Kawazu, actor (b. 1935)
• February 28 – Norihiro Inoue, actor (b. 1958)

• March 3 – Kyotaro Nishimura, novelist (b. 1930)
• March 14 – Akira Takarada, actor (b. 1934)
• March 16 – Kunimitsu Takahashi, former professional motorcycle, racing driver and team manager (b. 1940)
• March 17 – Tadao Sato, film critic (b. 1930)
• March 21 – Shinji Aoyama, film director (b. 1964)
• March 31 – Kei Yamamoto, actor (b. 1940)

• April 7 – Fujiko A. Fujio, manga artist (b. 1934)
• April 8 – Minori Matsushima, voice actress (b. 1940)
• April 18 – Shirō Sasaki, film producer (b. 1939)
• April 19 – Kane Tanaka, supercentenarian (oldest verified Japanese person and the second oldest verified person ever) (b. 1903)