{"id":186,"date":"2025-10-25T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=186"},"modified":"2025-10-01T07:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:53:15","slug":"tec-holiday-3-november-2011-culture-day-%e6%96%87%e5%8c%96%e3%81%ae%e6%97%a5-bunka-no-hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/10\/25\/tec-holiday-3-november-2011-culture-day-%e6%96%87%e5%8c%96%e3%81%ae%e6%97%a5-bunka-no-hi\/","title":{"rendered":"TEC Holiday, 3 November, 2025: Culture Day (\u6587\u5316\u306e\u65e5 Bunka no hi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Culture-Day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-187\" title=\"Culture Day\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Culture-Day-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Culture Day<\/strong> (\u6587\u5316\u306e\u65e5\u00a0<em>Bunka no hi<\/em>)\u00a0is a\u00a0<a title=\"Public holiday\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_holiday\">national holiday<\/a> held annually in\u00a0<a title=\"Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan\">Japan<\/a> on November 3 for the purpose of promoting\u00a0<a title=\"Culture\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Culture\">culture<\/a>, the\u00a0<a title=\"Arts\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arts\">arts<\/a>, and academic endeavor. Festivities typically include\u00a0<a title=\"Art exhibition\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Art_exhibition\">art exhibitions<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Parade\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parade\">parades<\/a>, and award ceremonies for distinguished\u00a0<a title=\"Artist\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artist\">artists<\/a> and\u00a0<a title=\"Scholar\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scholar\">scholars<\/a>. \u00a0It was first held in 1948, to commemorate the announcement of the post-war\u00a0<a title=\"Constitution of Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constitution_of_Japan\">Japanese constitution<\/a> on November 3, 1946.<\/p>\n<p>History<\/p>\n<p>Culture Day was first held in 1948, to commemorate the announcement of the post-war\u00a0<a title=\"Constitution of Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constitution_of_Japan\">Japanese constitution<\/a>\u00a0on November 3, 1946.<\/p>\n<p>November 3 was first celebrated as a national holiday in 1868, when it was called Tench\u014d-setsu\u00a0(\u5929\u9577\u7bc0), a holiday held in honor of the birthday of the reigning emperor\u2014at that time, the\u00a0<a title=\"Meiji Emperor\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meiji_Emperor\">Meiji Emperor<\/a>. (See also\u00a0<a title=\"The Emperor's Birthday\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Emperor%27s_Birthday\">The Emperor&#8217;s Birthday<\/a>.) With the death of the Meiji Emperor in 1912, November 3 ceased to be a holiday until 1927, when his birthday was given its own specific holiday, known as Meiji-setsu\u00a0(\u660e\u6cbb\u7bc0). As Meiji-setsu was discontinued with the announcement of Culture Day in 1948, some see Culture Day as a continuation of this tradition as well\u2014a mere renaming of Meiji-setsu\u2014although they are ostensibly unrelated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture Day (\u6587\u5316\u306e\u65e5\u00a0Bunka no hi)\u00a0is a\u00a0national holiday held annually in\u00a0Japan on November 3 for the purpose of promoting\u00a0culture, the\u00a0arts, and academic endeavor. Festivities typically include\u00a0art exhibitions,\u00a0parades, and award ceremonies for distinguished\u00a0artists and\u00a0scholars. \u00a0It was first held in 1948, to commemorate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/10\/25\/tec-holiday-3-november-2011-culture-day-%e6%96%87%e5%8c%96%e3%81%ae%e6%97%a5-bunka-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-186","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\/186","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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}