Recording culture day

November 16th is "Recording Culture Day" in Japan. It was established by the Japan Recording Media Industries Association, a group of corporations engaged in the manufacture of storage media for sound, video, and information processing.

In recent years, the way we record media has changed greatly. There's no denying that smartphone capabilities have made, among other things, recording much easier and accessible to the average person. Most phones have the ability to record not only media, but voices too. 

The reason November 16th was chosen as the date for "Recording Culture Day" is because on this day in 1878, James Ewing from England, who was invited to the University of Tokyo as a foreign lecturer, conducted Japan's first recording and playback experiment using a phonograph he had brought to Japan with him.