Category: Event

Hello everyone, Leo Sensei here! It has been a long time, but I am so excited to restart this blog today. After spending about 12 years living overseas—3 years in Indonesia and 9 years...

Children’s day Now Japan has long holidays from April 27th to May 6th. This week is called “Golden week”. In this golden week, we have holiday for children. May 5th is national holiday in...

令和れいわ-Reiwa- New Imperial Era in Japan Japanese government announced on April 1st that Japan will change imperial era from 平成へいせい(Heisei) to 令和れいわ(Reiwa). New era will start from one month later, May. In other words....

Sakura Season In Japan, Cherry blossom(桜さくら, Sakura) will be full bloom this month. Earth communication Provider（日本気象株式会社） announced cherry blossom forecast on March 7th. This is latest forecast when cherry blossoms will be fully open...

(J & E) Cherry Blossom Viewing-花見(Hanami) (Japanese bellow) In Japan, Cherry blossom is about to be full bloom now. My sister said now is fifty-percent bloom(五分咲き,gobuzaki) in Tokyo. Japanese like cherry blossom and hold...

Happy Valentine’s Day! How do you spend Valentine’s day?   Valentine’s Day is a special day for some women in Japan. You might have same day today in your country. I wanna introduce Japanese...

How Japanese Spend New Year holidays Hi, Happy new year! Most Japanese have long holidays from end of December to January 3rd. Instead, we Japan do not have Christmas holiday like other countries. This...

New Year’s Greeting Cards We have only a few days remaining in 2015. How do you spend these days? I got one question from my non-Japanese friend. She asked to me how to write...

Christmas in Japan Merry Christmas, everyone! Wish your happy Christmas! Today I wanna introduce how we Japanese celebrate this happy event.   Religion and Christmas event to Japanese First, I wanna mention about religion...

Hi Leo Sensei dayo! Did you enjoy your Halloween last Saturday? Now I feel ashamed. I have read some news about Halloween and thought about trash.   Halloween in Shibuya Shibuya is famous place...

Hi Leo Sensei dayo! I got request from one friend about Hinamatsuri in Japan. I will write about this customs, history and doll and so on though Hinamatsuri will be held about 6 month...