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Paulo wrote in his blog that I was going to explain to everyone what the Golden Week is all about. Well, time to put on my “sempai hat” and make a brief explanation. (A very brief one)

Golden week is The first week of May, when there is a cluster of holidays in Japan. 29 of april is Green day, May 3 is “constitution day”, may 5 is “children (boys) day”, and may 4 (the best one) is “free day” - officially “public holiday”. If one of these days fall in a sunday, the day off is moved to the next monday, and if we have any workdays between the golden week, we usually take a day off. In this particular year we had a great golden week, for the arrangment of weekdays meant that only 1st and 2nd of may, monday and tuesday, were regular days - which, of course, were given away by most schools and companies.

The funny thing about golden week is that these days offs were moved around a lot just for the sake of golden week itself. “Public Holiday” day and “green day” were created specially for the golden week, and from 2007 on, green day will become “emperor showa” day, and “public holiday” will become “green day”.

All for historical accuracy, I’m sure

Yay.

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