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The traditional first greeting after the beginning of the New Year is "Akemashite omedetō (明けましておめでとう, lit. "congratulations on the new year"). [ 6 ] This celebration is the equivalent of New Year's Eve in the Western world , and coincides with Saint Sylvester's Day celebrated by some Western Christian churches .
The rationale for this is that since their relative has died they cannot wish or experience a happy new year. In this case, the etiquette is not to send them a New Year's Greeting either. Summer cards are sent as well. Shochu-mimai (暑中見舞い) cards are sent from July to August 7 and zansho-mimai (残暑見舞い) cards are sent from ...
In Japan today, two particular idiosyncratic postcard customs exist: New Year's Day postcards (年賀状, nengajō) and return postcard s (往復はがき, ōfuku-hagaki). New Year's Day postcards serve as greeting cards , similar to Western Christmas cards , while return postcards function similarly to a self-addressed stamped envelope ...
Participants hit a huge bell to welcome the 2025 New Year's Day during celebrations post-midnight at the Bosingak pavilion in central Seoul on Jan. 1, 2025. Hong Kong
Nengajō, new year cards in Japan. The end of December and the beginning of January are the busiest for Japanese post offices. The Japanese have a custom of sending New Year's Day postcards (年賀状, nengajō) to their friends and relatives, similar to the Western custom of sending Christmas cards. The original purpose was to give faraway ...
1935 saw the first New Year's stamp, issued at the end of the year to pay postage on New Year's cards. It depicted Mount Fuji, as did the first of a long-running series of national parks issues, appearing in 1936. A new definitive series in 1942 reflected Japan's entry into World War II, with designs including war workers and saluting aviators ...
These promises would eventually become the forerunners to the New Year's resolutions seen today. Years later, Julius Caesar would go on to establish Jan. 1 as the beginning of the New Year in ...
Victor Protasio / Food Styling by Torie Cox / Prop Styling by Claire Spollen. Every New Year's Day, the author makes Ozoni, a warming Japanese New Year's soup.