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[What day is it today? | Tohoku Edition] What day is May 22nd?
Kitekero-kun's Birthday (Yamagata Prefecture) Kitekero-kun, the tourism promotional mascot for Yamagata Prefecture, was born on May 22, 2013 (Heisei 25)....

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Kitekero-kun's Birthday (Yamagata Prefecture) Kitekero-kun, the tourism promotional mascot for Yamagata Prefecture, was born on May 22, 2013 (Heisei 25)....

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Memorial Day for Hideyo Noguchi (Fukushima Prefecture) Physician and bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi is known for his research into yellow fever and syphilis as a researcher at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in the United States.

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Travel Day (The Day Matsuo Basho Set Out on His Journey) May 16, 1689 (March 27, 2nd year of the Genroku era in the lunar calendar) is celebrated as "Travel Day" in commemoration of the day Matsuo Basho set out on his journey to the Narrow Road to the Deep North with his disciple Kawai Sora...

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Saito Mokichi Memorial Day (Yamagata Prefecture) Today marks the birthday of Saito Mokichi, who wrote numerous tanka poems and essays as a poet from the Meiji to Showa periods and also worked as a psychiatrist. His birthday was May 14, 1882.

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Anniversary of the death of Matsudaira Sadanobu, the third lord of the Shirakawa Domain (Fukushima Prefecture) Matsudaira Sadanobu, the third lord of the Shirakawa Domain in Mutsu Province and grandson of Tokugawa Yoshimune, the eighth shogun of the Edo shogunate, died in May of Bunsei 12 (1829)...

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Yakushi Festival Plant Market (Yamagata Prefecture) The Yakushi Festival Plant Market is held every year for three days from May 8th to 10th around Yakushi Park in Yakushi-cho, Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture. The market was established in honor of the 11th head of the Mogami clan and first lord of the Yamagata domain...

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Amber Day (Iwate Prefecture) May 8th and 9th are celebrated as Amber Days, a pun on the Japanese kanji for "ko (5) ha (8) ku (9)" (ko (5) ha (8) ku (9)). Kuji Amber Co., Ltd., Kamiyama Amber Crafts Co., Ltd., and t...

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Amber Day (Iwate Prefecture) May 8th and 9th are celebrated as Amber Days, a pun on the Japanese kanji for "ko (5) ha (8) ku (9)" (ko (5) ha (8) ku (9)). Kuji Amber Co., Ltd., Kamiyama Amber Crafts Co., Ltd., and t...

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Birthday of Hoshina Masayuki, the first lord of the Aizu domain (Fukushima Prefecture) Hoshina Masayuki, the founder of the Aizu Matsudaira clan and the first lord of the Aizu domain in Mutsu, was the grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Edo shogunate, and the second shogun...

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Takano Chōei's Birthday (Iwate Prefecture) Takano Chōei, a physician and scholar of Western learning during the late Edo period, was the personal physician of Gotō Saneyoshi, a retainer of the Mizusawa Date family, lords of the Mizusawa domain and a branch of the Sendai Domain in Mutsu Province...

