{"id":480,"date":"2025-03-06T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=480"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:48:55","slug":"tec-holiday-march-20-2013-vernal-equinox-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/03\/06\/tec-holiday-march-20-2013-vernal-equinox-day\/","title":{"rendered":"TEC Holiday, March 20, 2025: Vernal Equinox Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1252\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/vernal-Equinox-e1618539168666.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"149\" \/>Vernal Equinox Day<\/strong>\u00a0(\u6625\u5206\u306e\u65e5\u00a0<em>Shunbun 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 occurs on the date of the vernal\u00a0<a title=\"Equinox\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Equinox\">equinox<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a title=\"Japan Standard Time\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan_Standard_Time\">Japan Standard Time<\/a>\u00a0(the vernal equinox can occur on different dates in different timezones), usually March 20 or 21. The date of the holiday is not declared official until February of the previous year, due to the need for recent astronomical measurements.<\/p>\n<p>Vernal Equinox Day became a public holiday in 1948. Prior to that it was the date of\u00a0<em>Shunki\u00a0<a title=\"K\u014dreisai\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/K%C5%8Dreisai\">k\u014dreisai<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(\u00a0\u6625\u5b63\u7687\u970a\u796d), an event relating to\u00a0<a title=\"Shintoism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shintoism\">Shintoism<\/a>. Like other Japanese 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>Vernal Equinox Day\u00a0(\u6625\u5206\u306e\u65e5\u00a0Shunbun no hi)\u00a0is a\u00a0public holiday in Japan\u00a0that occurs on the date of the vernal\u00a0equinox\u00a0in\u00a0Japan Standard Time\u00a0(the vernal equinox can occur on different dates in different timezones), usually March 20 or 21. The date of the holiday is not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/03\/06\/tec-holiday-march-20-2013-vernal-equinox-day\/\">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-480","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\/480","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=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}