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

Nitobe Inazo's death anniversary (Iwate Prefecture)

Inazo Nitobe, also known for his portrait on the 5,000 yen banknote issued from 1984 to 2007, was born on August 8, 1862 (September 1, 1862 in the Gregorian calendar) in Morioka Castle town, Iwate County, Mutsu Province (present-day Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture), as the third son of Jujiro Nitobe, a samurai of the Morioka Domain.

He graduated from Sapporo Agricultural College (now Hokkaido University) and worked as an educator, agricultural scholar, and colonial scholar. In 1920, when the League of Nations was established,its Under-Secretary-General.

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

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Isabella Lucy Bird's birthday

Isabella Lucy Bird , a 19th-century British traveler, explorer, and travel writer, was born 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 the major television stations in Yamagata Prefecture and the oldest private broadcaster in the prefecture .

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

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