{"id":77,"date":"2009-05-05T22:44:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T02:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=77"},"modified":"2009-05-05T22:44:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T02:44:59","slug":"midori-no-hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/midori-no-hi\/","title":{"rendered":"Midori no Hi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Midori no Hi (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><span><strong>\u307f\u3069\u308a\u306e\u65e5<\/strong><\/span><\/span>) is Greenary Day. Greenary Day is kind of like Arbor Day or Earth Day and occurs every May 4th. It&#8217;s a day to respect nature and to spend time outdoors. People take family outings to public gardens and take a stroll in the fields. Of course, the majority of people just like to have the day off from work.<\/p>\n<p>This whole day originated from the desire to name it after the late Emperor Shoowa (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><span><strong>\u662d\u548c\u5929\u7687<\/strong><\/span><\/span>). However, the Emperor isn&#8217;t so popular in other countries, so the Japanese government felt it would be best just to name it Greenary Day. Supposedly the Emperor loved plants and so the day is supposed to indirectly refer to the Emperor.<\/p>\n<p>Well turns out that the government decided to name a day after the Emperor, and just added Greenary Day for Golden Week. Golden Week or gooluden uiiku (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><span><strong>\u30b4\u30fc\u30eb\u30c7\u30f3\u30a6\u30a3\u30fc\u30af<\/strong><\/span><\/span>) is sometimes called Oogata renkyuu (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><span><strong>\u5927\u578b\u9023\u4f11<\/strong><\/span><\/span>) or Oogun Shuukan (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><span><strong>\u9ec4\u91d1\u9031\u9593<\/strong><\/span><\/span>). Golden Week (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><span><strong>\u30b4\u30fc\u30eb\u30c7\u30f3\u30a6\u30a3\u30fc\u30af<\/strong><\/span><\/span>) describes a string of holidays that provide people the opportunity to travel or take a vacation from work.<\/p>\n<p>Golden Week (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><span><strong>\u30b4\u30fc\u30eb\u30c7\u30f3\u30a6\u30a3\u30fc\u30af<\/strong><\/span><\/span>) is a busy time in Japan. Many of the flights are booked and filled to capacity. If you do manage to get a ticket around this time, it&#8217;s going to be way more expensive than any other normal time of the year. One piece of advice I can give you, is that it&#8217;s\u00a0a good idea to book a flight early. That way you don&#8217;t have to compete for a seat and pay outrageous prices for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midori no Hi (\u307f\u3069\u308a\u306e\u65e5) is Greenary Day. Greenary Day is kind of like Arbor Day or Earth Day and occurs every May 4th. It&#8217;s a day to respect nature and to spend time outdoors. People take family outings to public gardens and take a stroll in the fields. Of course, the majority of people just&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/midori-no-hi\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2720,2791],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-greenary-day","tag-midori-no-hi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6245,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/6245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}