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[What day is it today? | Tohoku Edition] What day is May 29th?
Golden Wind Day (Iwate Prefecture) May 29th is the day to celebrate Iwate's rice branding production, named after the Iwate Prefecture original rice variety "Golden Wind"...

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Golden Wind Day (Iwate Prefecture) May 29th is the day to celebrate Iwate's rice branding production, named after the Iwate Prefecture original rice variety "Golden Wind"...

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Prefectural Disaster Prevention Day (Akita Prefecture) May 26th is celebrated in commemoration of the 1983 Central Japan Sea Earthquake, which occurred off the west coast of Noshiro City, Akita Prefecture, and the resulting tsunami and other disasters that claimed 104 lives.

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The day the boundaries of Iwate Prefecture were established Iwate Prefecture was renamed from its predecessor, Morioka Prefecture, on February 16, 1872 (January 8, 1872). In 1876 (Meiji 9), during the second prefectural merger, Isawa County and Esashi District were merged from Iwai Prefecture...

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Date Masamune, the first lord of the Sendai domain (Miyagi Prefecture) Date Masamune, the 17th head of the Date clan and the first lord of the Sendai domain, died on May 24, 1636 (June 2, 1636 in the Gregorian calendar).

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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...

