Japanese celebrate the New Year’s Day with people flocking to shrines and malls.

-


In Japan, from midnight on New Year’s Eve to New Year's Day, shrines and temples around the country are crowded with a large number of people visiting for Hatsumode, the New Year's visit to shrines and temples. 
Japanese celebrate the New Year’s Day with people flocking to shrines and malls.

 For example, it is said that more than 3 million people visit Meiji Jingu Shrine in Tokyo during three days from New Year’s Day every year. 

 In the Chubu region, Atsuta Jingu, Toyokawa Inari and Ise Jingu are also famous for attracting many visitors. 
Japanese celebrate the New Year’s Day with people flocking to shrines and malls.

 In particular, more people seem to have visited Ise Jingu Shrine this year, which is closely related to the Imperial family, as this was the first New Year's Day since “Reiwa”, the new era has started. 

 During the New Year season, Fukubukuro, a kind of Lucky bag, is specially sold at department stores and shopping malls only for this period. 
Japanese celebrate the New Year’s Day with people flocking to shrines and malls.

 This year too, those retail stores were crowded with many shoppers hunting for Fukubukuro on New Year's Day. 
Japanese celebrate the New Year’s Day with people flocking to shrines and malls.

 On the other hand, work style reform is ongoing to cope with recent labor shortage in Japan having new changes to happen. 

 That is why some supermarkets and convenience stores were closed on New Year’s Day this year, usually thought to be one of the most lucrative business days.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Food and Drinks: Kaiten-sushi serves fresh and high quality of seafood

-
Image
Conveyor belt sushi , also known as Kaiten-sushi is a semi-self-service type, inexpensive sushi restaurant where small plates bringing various types of sushi on them are continuously circulated on chain conveyors installed along the seats.  Fresh and well-made sushi can be enjoyed for relatively cheap prices there. Plates typically come with one or two sushi pieces each and customers pick up plates they like. Customers can also place orders through a touch screen at each table when sushi they like is not available on conveyor belts.  Those Sushi are usually served on plates with several colors showing their prices ranging from 100 yen to around 500 yen. Some restaurants set the same price for all plates. The lowest price for a plate is usually 100 yen. That is why Kaiten-sushi is often called "100 yen sushi" and very popular among Japanese. Customers are given their bills from a staff who counts plates when they finish eating. Kaiten-sushi has grown thanks to technologie...
Read more

Investing in Japan: Menicon, a leading Japanese contact lens manufacturer, aims overseas market expansion

-
Image
Menicon secured profit growth amid COVID-19 disruptions Menicon Co., Ltd. is a leading contact lens manufacturer in Japan founded in 1951, headquartered in Nagoya. It consistently develops, manufactures and sells contact lenses and related products in-house. To date, Menicon has developed various types of contact lenses such as hard lenses, soft lenses, disposables (disposable), lenses for astigmatism and bifocal lenses. It has the No. 1 market share for hard lenses and the No. 2 market for soft lenses in Japan.  As for the recent consolidated financial results, Menicon announced that net income for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020 was 4 billion yen, up 14% from the previous year. While the sales and profits of most Japanese companies fell sharply due to the spread of new coronavirus infections, Menicon increased its sales by 4.5% from the previous year to 84.5 billion yen, a record high for the fifth consecutive year since listing of its stock. On the other hand, the earning...
Read more

Investing in Japan: Toyota shows its strength shrugging off pandemic damage and semiconductor shortage

-
Image
COVID-19 cases rise in Japan amid state of emergency, Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics to be downsized The Japanese government has decided to add three prefectures to its state of emergency as coronavirus cases continue to rise.   Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on May 14 that he decided to expand a COVID-19 state of emergency covering Tokyo and other areas to three more prefectures as infections continue to surge ahead of the Summer Olympics.  Starting on May 15, it will cover Hokkaido, Okayama and Hiroshima in an effort to curb infections and ease the strain on medical systems. The government will also designate three more prefectures as areas where intensive virus measures should be taken which is often called “Manbou”, acronym in Japanese for quasi-emergency to contain the virus.  Daily new cases have been on the rise nationwide in recent weeks reaching more than 6,000 for the fourth straight day as of May 14. The recent spike in new cases forces the organizers of ...
Read more