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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 11 is the 254th day of the year ... The British celebrate a major victory in Chester County, Pennsylvania. [8] 1780 – American Revolutionary War: ...
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.
Since 1873, the official Japanese New Year has been celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar, on January 1 of each year, New Year's Day (元日, Ganjitsu). Prior to 1872, traditional events of the Japanese New Year were celebrated on the first day of the year on the modern Tenpō calendar, the last official lunisolar calendar.
The second phase was a time of celebration: hula dancing, of paʻani kahiko (sports (iko. These contests, such as mokomoko (boxing), heʻe hōlua (sledding), and kūkini (foot racing) wrestling, sliding on sleds, javelin marksmanship, bowling, surfing, waʻa races, and swimming), of singing and of feasting. Some of these games were physical sports.
The festival was celebrated on six of Hawaii's islands, but in 2008 festival organizers decided to hold most events on Oahu due to a lack of funding. There was also the chance that the Floral Parade would be cancelled altogether, but it was saved by private donors and funds from the City and County of Honolulu. [3] No Aloha festival was held in ...
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Tsukimi or Otsukimi (お月見), meaning, "moon-viewing", are Japanese festivals honoring the autumn moon, a variant of the Mid-Autumn Festival.The celebration of the full moon typically takes place on the 15th day of the eighth month of the traditional Japanese calendar, known as Jūgoya (十五夜, fifteenth night); [1] the waxing moon is celebrated on the 13th day of the ninth month, known ...