Japan’s National Holidays in 2025 | Nippon.com
Jun 6, 2024 · Japan has 16 national holidays throughout the year. Both at the start and end of 2025, many schoolchildren and company workers will enjoy nine-day winter vacation periods, running from the ...
The Year of the Snake: Slithering into 2025 | Nippon.com
Nov 18, 2024 · Financial Fortunes. A humble reptile slithers into the spotlight in 2025, which will be the Year of the Snake according to the 12-year cycle of zodiacal animals, known in Japanese as eto.Serpents ...
Japan’s Idol Industry - nippon.com
Yamaguchi Momoe, the duo Pink Lady, and Matsuda Seiko were among the most popular pop music idols of the 1970s and 1980s. The niche they carved out in the Japanese entertainment industry is now ...
Japan’s National Holidays in 2024 - nippon.com
Jun 30, 2023 · Japan has 16 national holidays throughout the year. In 2024, there are more three-day weekends than usual as several of the holidays on fixed dates take place on Friday or Monday, or fall on ...
Japanese Politics in 2024: Election Likely to Follow Kishida’s Last ...
Jan 5, 2024 · A change in leadership looks inevitable in 2024, as the seriously unpopular Prime Minister Kishida Fumio grapples with the fallout from the scandal engulfing his Liberal Democratic Party. But the ...
The Future of Japan’s Idol Industry | Nippon.com
Jun 18, 2019 · Nakamori Akio Writer, idol industry critic, columnist, and editor. Born in 1960 in Mie Prefecture. Coined the now widely used term otaku in reference to the obsessive fans of certain subcultures.
Japan’s Nuclear Power Plants in 2024 | Nippon.com
Nov 1, 2024 · On October 29, 2024, Tōhoku Electric Power Company brought the number 2 reactor at Onagawa Nuclear Power Station in Miyagi Prefecture back online, 13 years after it was shut down following the ...
Mount Fuji’s History of Eruptions | Nippon.com
Apr 3, 2019 · Mount Fuji is a Japanese icon, and at 3,776 meters the country’s tallest peak. Its elegant symmetry, spreading outward like a hand fan from summit to base, is the result of repeated occurrences ...
Ueno Chizuko: Japan’s Feminist Icon Gaining International …
Sep 18, 2024 · Feminist and women’s studies pioneer Ueno Chizuko, recently named one of Time magazine’s “100 most influential people of 2024,” looks back on her evolution as a scholar and activist ...
Average Monthly Wage in Japan Reaches New High of ¥310,000
Apr 3, 2023 · A survey conducted in Japan by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare has found that the average monthly wage for a full-time worker in 2022 was ¥311,800, a 1.4% year-on-year increase and the ...