{"id":566,"date":"2025-09-02T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=566"},"modified":"2025-10-01T07:48:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:48:38","slug":"tec-holiday-16-september-2013-respect-for-the-aged-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/09\/02\/tec-holiday-16-september-2013-respect-for-the-aged-day\/","title":{"rendered":"TEC Holiday, 15 September 2025: Respect for the Aged Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Aged-day-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-567\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Aged-day-2013.jpg\" alt=\"Aged day 2013\" width=\"215\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a>Respect for the Aged Day<\/b>\u00a0(\u656c\u8001\u306e\u65e5\u00a0<i>Keir\u014d no Hi<\/i><sup><a title=\"Help:Installing Japanese character sets\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets\">?<\/a><\/sup>)\u00a0is a Japanese\u00a0<a title=\"Holiday\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holiday\">holiday<\/a>\u00a0celebrated annually to honor\u00a0<a title=\"Elderly\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elderly\">elderly<\/a>\u00a0citizens. \u00a0It started in 1966 as a\u00a0<a title=\"Public holiday\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_holiday\">national holiday<\/a>\u00a0and was held on every September 15. After 2003, the Respect for the Aged Day is held on the 3rd Monday of September due to the\u00a0<a title=\"Happy Monday System\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Happy_Monday_System\">Happy Monday System<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This national holiday traces its origins to 1947, when Nomadani-mura (later\u00a0<a title=\"Yachiyo, Hy\u014dgo\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yachiyo,_Hy%C5%8Dgo\">Yachiyo-cho<\/a>, currently\u00a0<a title=\"Taka, Hy\u014dgo\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taka,_Hy%C5%8Dgo\">Taka-cho<\/a>),\u00a0<a title=\"Hy\u014dgo Prefecture\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hy%C5%8Dgo_Prefecture\">Hy\u014dgo Prefecture<\/a>\u00a0proclaimed September 15 Old Folks&#8217; Day (Toshiyori no Hi). Its popularity spread nationwide, and in 1966 it took its present name and status. Annually,\u00a0<a title=\"Japanese media\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanese_media\">Japanese media<\/a>\u00a0take the opportunity to feature the elderly, reporting on the population and highlighting the oldest people in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respect for the Aged Day\u00a0(\u656c\u8001\u306e\u65e5\u00a0Keir\u014d no Hi?)\u00a0is a Japanese\u00a0holiday\u00a0celebrated annually to honor\u00a0elderly\u00a0citizens. \u00a0It started in 1966 as a\u00a0national holiday\u00a0and was held on every September 15. After 2003, the Respect for the Aged Day is held on the 3rd Monday of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/09\/02\/tec-holiday-16-september-2013-respect-for-the-aged-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-566","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\/566","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=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}