{"id":444,"date":"2025-09-15T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=444"},"modified":"2025-10-01T07:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:49:24","slug":"tec-holiday-22-september-2012-autumnal-equinox-day-%e7%a7%8b%e5%88%86%e3%81%ae%e6%97%a5-shubun-no-hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/09\/15\/tec-holiday-22-september-2012-autumnal-equinox-day-%e7%a7%8b%e5%88%86%e3%81%ae%e6%97%a5-shubun-no-hi\/","title":{"rendered":"TEC Holiday, 23 September, 2025: Autumnal Equinox Day (\u79cb\u5206\u306e\u65e5 Sh\u016bbun no hi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/autumn-equinox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-558\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/autumn-equinox-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"autumn-equinox\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Autumnal Equinox Day<\/strong>\u00a0(\u79cb\u5206\u306e\u65e5\u00a0<em>Sh\u016bbun no Hi<\/em>)\u00a0is a\u00a0<a title=\"Public holidays in Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_holidays_in_Japan\">public holiday in Japan<\/a>\u00a0that usually occurs on September 22 or 23, the date of\u00a0<a title=\"Southward equinox\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southward_equinox\">Southward equinox<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a title=\"Japan Standard Time\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan_Standard_Time\">Japan Standard Time<\/a>\u00a0(autumnal equinox can occur on different dates for different timezones). \u00a0Due to the necessity of recent astronomical measurements, the date of the holiday is not officially declared until February of the previous year. Autumnal Equinox Day became a public holiday on 1948. In 1947 and before, it was the date of\u00a0<em>Sh\u016bki\u00a0<a title=\"K\u014dreisai\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/K%C5%8Dreisai\">k\u014dreisai<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(\u00a0\u79cb\u5b63\u7687\u970a\u796d), an event relating to\u00a0<a title=\"Shintoism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shintoism\">Shintoism<\/a>. \u00a0Like other holidays, this holiday was repackaged as a non-religious holiday for the sake of separation of religion and state in\u00a0<a title=\"Constitution of Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constitution_of_Japan\">Japan&#8217;s postwar constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autumnal Equinox Day\u00a0(\u79cb\u5206\u306e\u65e5\u00a0Sh\u016bbun no Hi)\u00a0is a\u00a0public holiday in Japan\u00a0that usually occurs on September 22 or 23, the date of\u00a0Southward equinox\u00a0in\u00a0Japan Standard Time\u00a0(autumnal equinox can occur on different dates for different timezones). \u00a0Due to the necessity of recent astronomical measurements, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/09\/15\/tec-holiday-22-september-2012-autumnal-equinox-day-%e7%a7%8b%e5%88%86%e3%81%ae%e6%97%a5-shubun-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-444","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\/444","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=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}