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1. More planning before the trip. My pre-trip research focused mainly on sites and activities, not the logistics. I didn't book anything in advance, aside from my first few days in Tokyo. This led ...
April 1: Events. 1867 - Japan participates in its first world expo, the Paris World Expo. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-seventh Day of the Second Month, 1867) 1880 - The Mitsubishi Foreign Exchange, the precursor to the Bank of Mitsubishi, is established. 1889 - Fukuoka City is established. The population at the time was a mere 50,847 people.
This is a list of Japanese anniversaries and memorial days or kinenbi (記念日).Many dates have been selected because of a special relationship with the anniversary, but some are the product of Japanese wordplay (語呂合わせ, goroawase).
Japanese festivals are traditional festive occasions often celebrated with dance and music in Japan.In Japan, festivals are called matsuri (祭り), and the origin of the word matsuri is related to the kami (神, Shinto deities); there are theories that the word matsuri is derived from matsu (待つ) meaning "to wait (for the kami to descend)", tatematsuru (献る) meaning "to make offerings ...
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Name Date Remarks Ref. New Year's Day (元日, Ganjitsu): January 1 This national holiday was established in 1948, as a day to celebrate the new year. New Year's Day marks the beginning of Japan's most important holiday season, the New Year season (正月, Shōgatsu), which generally refers to the first one, three or seven days of the year.
The present era, Reiwa, formally began on 1 May 2019. [8] [9] [10] The name of the new era was announced by the Japanese government on 1 April 2019, a month prior to Naruhito's accession to the throne. [11] [12] [10] The previous era, Heisei, came to an end on 30 April 2019, after Japan's former emperor, Akihito, abdicated the throne.
Golden Week (Japanese: ゴールデンウィーク, Hepburn: Gōruden Wīku) [a] or Ōgon Shūkan (黄金週間) is a holiday period in Japan from 29 April to 5 May containing multiple public holidays. [1] It is also known as Haru no Ōgata Renkyū (春の大型連休, Long spring holiday series).