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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.
September 6 in recent years ... England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.) ... emperor of Japan (b. 923 ...
The Happy Monday System (ハッピーマンデー制度, Happī Mandē Seido) is a set of modifications to Japanese law in 1998 [1] and 2001 [2] to move a number of public holidays in Japan to Mondays, creating three-day weekends for those with five-day work weeks. It is the Japanese equivalent of the 1968 Uniform Monday Holiday Act in the ...
Public holidays in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; Public holidays in the Turks and Caicos Islands; Public holidays in the United States. Public holidays in Guam; Public holidays in Puerto Rico; Public holidays in the United States Virgin Islands; Public holidays in Uruguay; Public holidays in Uzbekistan; Public holidays in Vanuatu
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). These are listed by month in date order. Those excluded from the list are as follows: Public holidays in Japan such as New Year's Day, National Foundation Day, etc.
“The View” hosts — Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, Joy Behar and Alyssa Farah Griffin — came together on the Nov. 6 episode of the ABC talk show to react to Donald ...
It wasn’t until the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 that private sector employees were granted the right to join unions. Later into the 20th century, states also began passing legislation ...
Japanese law stipulates that if there is only one non-holiday in between two public holidays, that day should become an additional holiday, known as a Kokumin no kyūjitsu (lit. Citizens' Holiday). It is unusual for September to get this extra holiday, so the presence of a "silver week" was not widely noted before 2009. The term "silver week ...