Silver Week

Silver Week
A serendipitously extended public holiday in Japan.

Reporting for Bloomberg on a “quirk” of the Japanese calendar, Akiko Ikeda and Satoshi Kawano noted:

For the first time, [Japan] will enjoy a five-day break in September that the media have dubbed “silver week.” …
Silver week is a result of the “Happy Monday” law in effect since 2000, under which a holiday falling on a Sunday is carried over to Monday, and any day sandwiched between two holidays becomes a day off as well. This year, workers get a five-day respite beginning Saturday, Sept. 19.
(According to EUdict.com, silver week denotes “any long string of Japanese public holidays other than Golden Week” – which falls between April 29 and May 5.)


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