The travel mug’s worth of coffee I’d consumed that morning hit my bladder with the force of a runaway train, making me squirm in the commissary checkout line.
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Capt. David Adams, Commander, Fleet Activities Sasebo stands to be recognized during the annual Sasebo City Fire Department Dezome-shiki Ceremony held at Arkas Event Hall in Sasebo, Japan Jan. 6, 2022.
In The Land of Rising Sun everything is reborn with the new year! In the early days of January, we often call any action and event by using the prefix “Hatsu-,” which literally means “first time.”
New Year’s is Japan’s biggest and longest holiday. People take Dec. 29 to Jan. 3 off from work to celebrate the first three days of the year praying at temples and shrines for the coming year.
Normally full of glitz and glamour, elaborate fireworks, countdowns and plenty of revelry, this year’s New Year’s Eve is bound to be much quieter. Lavish celebrations in cities across the globe have been canceled and replaced with lockdowns or harsh restrictions
Is your New Year’s resolution to lose 30 pounds? Stop smoking? Give up junk food? Complete your degree? The new year is an opportunity to improve your life, but there’s one problem.
New Year’s is Japan’s biggest and longest holiday. People take Dec. 29 through Jan. 3 off from work to celebrate the first three days of the year praying at temples and shrines for the coming year.
Traditionally all the dishes that make up the osechi panoply are precooked and put into special four-tiered lacquerware boxes called jubako by New Year’s Eve. New Year’s festivities run from January 1 to 3.
