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Articles tagged #Seasonal — Page 3

  • culture/ Apr 6, 2026

    Everyone Starts on the Same Day

    Fiscal year, school year, working year — in April the whole country steps over the same threshold at once.

    Two pale cherry blossom petals resting on the dark wool lapel of a folded coat.
  • culture/ Mar 25, 2026

    The Ceremony of Leaving

    An American commencement faces forward; a Japanese graduation faces back. A returnee reads the gap between arriving and leaving.

    A close view of a dark high-collared school uniform jacket with a row of round silver buttons.
  • culture/ Mar 18, 2026

    Under the Forecast

    Cherry blossom season is a week of blue tarps, warm beer, and rearranged calendars — and the compulsion never fades

    A couple sits eating on a blue picnic sheet beneath blossoming cherry trees lining a riverside path.
  • food/ Mar 14, 2026

    The Return Gift

    The confectionery industry invented a holiday, set a 2-3x return rule, and built a ¥50 billion market out of obligation

    Rows of pastel ribbon-tied gift boxes with Japanese price tags arranged in a shop display.
  • culture/ Mar 1, 2026

    A Thousand Tiny Courts

    Hundred-year-old dolls on red-draped tiers, the superstition about putting them away on time, and what Girls Day reveals about tradition

    A tiered display of ornate Japanese dolls on red cloth in a tatami room with shoji screens.