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Nitobe Inazo's death anniversary (Iwate Prefecture)

Inazo Nitobe Source: Wikipedia
Inazo Nitobe Source: Wikipedia

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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The day Radio Yamagata (now Yamagata Broadcasting) began broadcasting

Radio (image)
Radio (image)

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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