New Year Holiday Japan 2020

4 2020 as people head home after new year holidays.

New year holiday japan 2020. Japan reshuffled some of its national holidays in 2020 to accommodate the tokyo summer olympics. Japanese new year celebrations are quite different from typical. Japanese holidays can be patriotic religious secular international or uniquely japanese.

In japan after the 25th of december it s as if christmas never happened. That s because christmas here is like halloween just another fun holiday without much traditional or cultural let alone religious significance the traditional winter holiday for the japanese is oshogatsu literally first month or new year. With the exception of new year s day if a holiday falls on a sunday the following day is treated as a holiday instead.

A shinkansen bullet train platform at jr shin osaka station in osaka is crowded with travelers on jan. Businesses government offices banks and the post office will all be closed for a stretch of about nine days at the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020. School holidays in japan consist of public holidays with both national and cultural holidays such as new year national foundation day and christmas however japan also has unique holidays which aren t celebrated elsewhere in the world.

Government suggests extended new year break to cut covid 19 risks source. Kyodo kyodo tokushima gov. In order to accommodate the 2020 tokyo summer olympics japan has decided to shuffle the dates of some of its national holidays.

Overview of holidays and many observances in japan during the year 2020. Japanese holiday calendar 2020. Japan holiday news 23 october 2020.

The next term starts around july 20 and the final term begins in early january and ends in march. Calendar of japan holidays year 2020 japanese celebrate a variety of national holidays festivals and other national observances throughout the year. In japan the end of the year and beginning of the year holidays are combined into one long holiday called nenmatsu nenshi oyasumi 年末年始お休み.