{"id":155,"date":"2024-11-12T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=155"},"modified":"2025-05-06T16:05:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:05:27","slug":"tec-holiday-23-november-2011-labor-thanksgiving-day-%e5%8b%a4%e5%8a%b4%e6%84%9f%e8%ac%9d%e3%81%ae%e6%97%a5-kinro-kansha-no-hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2024\/11\/12\/tec-holiday-23-november-2011-labor-thanksgiving-day-%e5%8b%a4%e5%8a%b4%e6%84%9f%e8%ac%9d%e3%81%ae%e6%97%a5-kinro-kansha-no-hi\/","title":{"rendered":"TEC Holiday, 23 November, 2024: Labor Thanksgiving Day (\u52e4\u52b4\u611f\u8b1d\u306e\u65e5 Kinr\u014d kansha no hi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Labor-Thankgiving-Day-in-Japan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-156\" title=\"Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Labor-Thankgiving-Day-in-Japan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a>Labor Thanksgiving Day<\/strong> (\u52e4\u52b4\u611f\u8b1d\u306e\u65e5\u00a0<em>Kinr\u014d kansha no hi<\/em>)\u00a0is a national\u00a0<a title=\"Holidays of Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holidays_of_Japan\">holiday<\/a> in\u00a0<a title=\"Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan\">Japan<\/a>. It takes place annually on November 23. The law establishing the holiday cites it as an occasion for commemorating\u00a0<a title=\"Manual labor\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manual_labor\">labor<\/a> and production and giving one another thanks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Events are held throughout Japan, one such being the\u00a0<a title=\"Nagano\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nagano\">Nagano<\/a> Labor Festival. The event encourages thinking about the\u00a0<a title=\"Natural environment\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natural_environment\">environment<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Peace\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peace\">peace<\/a> and\u00a0<a title=\"Human rights\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_rights\">human rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It is not unusual for early grade elementary students to create drawings for the holiday and give them as gifts to local\u00a0<a title=\"K\u014dban\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/K%C5%8Dban\">k\u014dbans<\/a>, or\u00a0<a title=\"Police station\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Police_station\">police stations<\/a>. \u00a0Labor\u00a0Thanksgiving Day is the modern name for an ancient \u00a0<a title=\"Five Cereals (China)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Five_Cereals_(China)\">cereal<\/a> (<a title=\"Rice\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rice\">rice<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Barley\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barley\">barley<\/a>\/<a title=\"Wheat\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wheat\">wheat<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Foxtail millet\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foxtail_millet\">foxtail millet<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Echinochloa esculenta\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Echinochloa_esculenta\">barnyard millet<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Proso millet\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proso_millet\">proso millet<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"Bean\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bean\">beans<\/a>)\u00a0<a title=\"Harvest festival\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harvest_festival\">harvest festival<\/a> known as\u00a0<em>Niiname-sai<\/em> (\u65b0\u5617\u796d), believed to have been held as long ago as November of 678.<sup>[<em><a title=\"Wikipedia:Citation needed\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Citation_needed\">citation needed<\/a><\/em>]<\/sup> Traditionally, it celebrated the year&#8217;s hard work; during the Niiname-sai ceremony, the\u00a0<a title=\"Emperors of Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emperors_of_Japan\">Emperor<\/a> would dedicate the year&#8217;s harvest to\u00a0<a title=\"Kami\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kami\">kami<\/a> (<a title=\"Spirit\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spirit\">spirits<\/a>), and taste the rice for the first time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The modern holiday was established after\u00a0<a title=\"World War II\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\">World War II<\/a> in 1948 as a day to mark some of the changes of the postwar\u00a0<a title=\"Constitution of Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constitution_of_Japan\">constitution of Japan<\/a>, including fundamental human rights and the expansion of workers rights. Currently Niiname-sai is held privately by the\u00a0<a title=\"Imperial House of Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imperial_House_of_Japan\">Imperial House of Japan<\/a> while Labor Thanksgiving Day has become a national holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Thanksgiving Day (\u52e4\u52b4\u611f\u8b1d\u306e\u65e5\u00a0Kinr\u014d kansha no hi)\u00a0is a national\u00a0holiday in\u00a0Japan. It takes place annually on November 23. The law establishing the holiday cites it as an occasion for commemorating\u00a0labor and production and giving one another thanks. Events are held throughout &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2024\/11\/12\/tec-holiday-23-november-2011-labor-thanksgiving-day-%e5%8b%a4%e5%8a%b4%e6%84%9f%e8%ac%9d%e3%81%ae%e6%97%a5-kinro-kansha-no-hi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peter-bohannan-tec-director","category-tec-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}