August
2016 / 08 / 11
Mountain Day (Japan)
Japan is to introduce a new national holiday called Mountain Day in a move that may ease pressure on the nation’s overworked armies of salarymen.
The holiday, scheduled annually for August 11, was created after legislation was passed by Japan’s parliament following lobbying from the Japanese Alpine Club and other mountain-related groups.
The new public holiday, which will start from 2016, will celebrate all things mountain-related in Japan, a nation whose culture is founded on nature-inspired Shintoism.
The objective of the new legislation stated that the day was created in order to share “opportunities to get familiar with mountains and appreciate blessings form mountains”.
Source:
Telegraph.co.uk
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