The New Year, or oshogatsu, is the central holiday period of the Japanese calendar and is well on its way. For the 2020 festivities, Disney Stores in Japan are letting fans ring in the New Year with ...

Kadomatsu are displayed in many places to celebrate the New Year. Note: Kadomatsu decorations are made from ... outside homes and office buildings. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken ...

Tokyo Disney Resort New Year’s Both parks will have a special New Year’s Greeting featuring Mickey Mouse and friends in traditional Japanese attire, kadomatsu decorations at the entrances ...

Japanese New Year celebrations are quite different from Western ones ... Invite good luck into your place with some auspicious decorations. Walking around Tokyo, you might see "kadomatsu" and ...

Kadomatsu are the snazzy bamboo-and-pine decorations that ... it comes to hatsumode, the Japanese custom of visiting a shrine or temple at the beginning of the new year. The famously long queues ...

Shogatsu, or New Year's, is when Japanese generally work less than the rest of the world. It is also the time to follow long-standing traditions related to the Shinto and Buddhist religions ...

Leading up to the new year, to give themselves a fresh start, Japanese families embark on ... Another common decoration is the shimenawa, a braided straw rope often hung at a home's entrance ...

Shōgatsu is the most significant event on the Japanese ... prosperity in the year ahead. The shōgatsu season runs through January 7, or January 15 in some regions. While New Year’s Day ...

Ozoni is standard New Year’s Day fare for many Japanese Americans, whether they are nisei, the children of Japanese immigrants, or yonsei, fourth-generation Japanese Americans. Starting in the ...