Seijin no hi, or New Adults’ Day is the day when we celebrate the new adult people in the year. People who become 20 years old in the year are celebrated for the growth and future happiness in Japan.
The day was set on 15th of January some years ago, but nowadays, it’s on the 2nd Monday in January each year, and it’s a national holiday of Japan. This year’s New Adult’s Day is 11th of January.
New adults wear the traditional wear, Kimono, or suites. And they attend the ceremony at the city hall of their cities.
20 years old should mean old enough for being called an adult, but these days many are not menntally matured enough, often tjhey spoil the celemony by drinking wine or Japanese beer and shout there. 20 years old means that they can drink alchohlic drinks in public, so many take it different and get mad ! They are reaclly crazy and it’s a kind of a social problem.
Anyway, the New Adults’ day is a symbolic time of Japanese people because we see young people in Japanese Kimono, and we remember when we did the same thing years ago.
