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Japanese New Year
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New Year 2011 is coming to rock our world with new achievement, fun and complete liveliness. Just like other parts of the around the world, Japan as well celebrates New Year event on the 31st December. 1st January which is a Japanese national holiday is called gantan.
Japanese new year festival begins is from January 1st to 3rd and is called shougatsu. Japanese new year date is the most essential holiday in Japan. People speak to each other "ake-mashite-omedetou-gozaimasu" means Happy New Year whenever they meet at the first time in the new year.
Japanese New Year Celebration
The Japanese celebrate this event in a big way. The official Japanese New Year
date falls on January 1st, however, in truth the season itself runs from the 31st of December during the 3rd of January. The Japanese new year 2011 celebration is a way to send out the old year and welcome the new. People rejoice Japanese New Year by garnish their homes and opening gates with various ornaments made of pine, bamboo and plum trees, along with cleaning their dress and houses to make them look bright and new. On New Year's Day, the people of Japan begin the New Year with a "mochi" or rice cake breakfast. This dish is served in a stew called "Ozoni."
Mochi rice cakes are the famous and well known Japanese new year trendy dish that can be prepared by rice ponding . However, several modern Japanese families buy them from departmental store now. It is customary for Japanese people to visit to a holy place or a temple on the occasion of New Year's holidays. People pray for protection, fitness and good luck. The first visit to a temple or holy place in a year is called hatsumoude. It is not a much religious event but rather a tradition. Many renowned temples and shrines are very crowded on the time of Japanese new year.
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