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Reiwa (Japanese: 令和, pronounced ⓘ or [1] [2]) is the current and 232nd era of the official calendar of Japan. It began on 1 May 2019, the day on which Emperor Akihito 's eldest son, Naruhito , ascended the throne as the 126th Emperor of Japan .
The date beneath the "10" reads 平成七年 Heisei year 7, or the year 1995. The most commonly used date format in Japan is "year month day (weekday)", with the Japanese characters meaning "year", "month" and "day" inserted after the numerals. Example: 2023年12月31日 (日) for "Sunday 31 December 2023".
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Keizō Obuchi, Chief Cabinet Secretary, announces the name of the new era "Heisei" (平成), on 7 January 1989. Yoshihide Suga, Chief Cabinet Secretary, announces the name of the new era "Reiwa" (令和) at the Prime Minister's Official Residence, on 1 April 2019. 1729 Japanese calendar, which used the Jōkyō calendar procedure, published by Ise Grand Shrine
Modern Japanese culture has invented a kind of "compromised" way of setting dates for festivals called Tsuki-okure ("One-Month Delay") or Chūreki ("The Eclectic Calendar"). The festival is celebrated just one solar calendar month later than the date on the Gregorian calendar. For example, the Buddhist festival of Obon was the 15th day of the ...
This day was marks an official beginning of new Japanese period, Reiwa. As of between 29 April and 5 May are already holidays, this caused 30 April and 2 May to be public holidays as well, making 2019's Golden Week at about ten consecutive days, from Saturday 27 April through Monday 6 May.
macOS Mojave 10.14.5 and iOS 12.3 included support for the Reiwa era. [5] [6] Unicode code point U+32FF was reserved in September 2018 for representing the new era name, [7] and Unicode 12.1 included U+32FF ㋿ SQUARE ERA NAME REIWA. [8] The GNU C Library was updated to include the new era name in the 2.30 release. [9]
Reiwa era. 1 May: Beginning of the Reiwa era and accession date of Emperor Naruhito. Kenji-tō-Shōkei-no-gi (剣璽等承継の儀) Emperor Naruhito inherits two of the three Imperial Regalia of Japan, as well as the Privy Seal and State Seal. This ceremony also takes place in the Hall of Pines. [56] [57] [58]