Japan is popular for its many national holidays and some of them celebrate quite unusual occurences, such as the Marine Day on July 16 or the Mountain Day on August 11. But did you know that our country has actually a faux holiday for each day of the year?
Most of them are put together by the syllables of the words for that particular month and day. Let's take January 5 as an example − 'Ichigo no hi' (strawberry day) combines the numbers 'ichi' (eng. one) and 'go' (eng. five) which form the word 'ichigo', meaning strawberry in Japanese.
Find out the most bizarre ones in our guide and plan to celebrate a lot more things from now on.
