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[What day is it today? | Tohoku Edition] What day is June 19th?

Cherry Blossom Memorial Day (Dazai Osamu's birthday and death anniversary)

Osamu Dazai Source: Wikipedia
Osamu Dazai Source:Wikipedia

June 19thisthe Cherry Blossom Memorial Day, and it is both the anniversary of the death of novelist Osamu Dazai and his birthday.

Dazai Osamu, a novelist born on June 19, 1909 in Kanagi Village, Kitatsugaru District, Aomori Prefecture (now Kanagi Town, Goshogawara City), drowned with Yamazaki Tomie in the Tamagawa Canal on June 13, 1948. Their bodies were discovered six days later on June 19, which coincidentally was Dazai's birthday. He died at the age of 38

It is said that Kon Kan'ichi, a novelist from the same hometown as Dazai, Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture, named the day "Sakura-momo-ki" after Dazai's short story "Sakura-momo," which became his last work

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