[What day is it today? | Tohoku Edition] What day is October 15th?

Nitobe Inazo's death anniversary (Iwate Prefecture)

Nitobe Inazo, whose portrait appears on the 5,000 yen bill issued from 1984 to 2007, was born on August 8, 1862 (September 1, 1862) in Morioka Castle, Iwate County, Mutsu Province (present-day Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture) as the third son of Nitobe Jujiro, a samurai of the Morioka domain.

He graduated from Sapporo Agricultural College (now Hokkaido University) and worked as an educator, agricultural scientist, and colonial scholar, and Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations .

In 1933 (Showa 8), he collapsed in Victoria, British Columbia, on the west coast of Canada, where he was visiting to attend a conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, and was hospitalized. October 15th , his condition suddenly worsened, and he passed away. He was 72 years old (71 years old when he died).

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Isabella Lucy Bird's birthday

Isabella Lucy Bird , a 19th-century British traveler, explorer, and travel writer, on October 15, 1831 , as the eldest daughter of a clergyman in Yorkshire, England.

From June to September 1878 (Meiji 11), he traveled through Tokyo, Nikko, Fukushima, Niigata, Yamagata, Akita, Aomori, and Hokkaido in the early Meiji era, together with his interpreter and attendant, Tsurukichi Ito, and wrote "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan."

In her work, Isabella Bird describes the Okitama region of Yamagata Prefecture as the "Garden of Eden" and its landscape as the " Arcadia of the East."

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The day Radio Yamagata (now Yamagata Broadcasting) began broadcasting

YBC Yamagata Broadcasting is one of Yamagata Prefecture's major television stations and is the private broadcasting station with the longest history in the prefecture .

Its predecessor, Radio Yamagata , began regular radio broadcasting on October 15, 1953 (Showa 28), and was established as the 28th private radio station in Japan

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