Mountain Day holiday
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JAPAN yesterday established Mountain Day as its new public holiday, taking the annual total to 16 as the government looks for ways to keep a famously hard-working people out of the office.
Legislation to create the new holiday on August 11 was enacted after passing through the upper house with the support of a majority of ruling and opposition lawmakers, a parliamentary official said.
It came after the Japanese Alpine Club and other mountain-related groups lobbied for the bill, claiming that Japan — where Shintoism’s animistic beliefs have shaped the culture — needed to celebrate its hills.
Japan already marks Marine Day, which is sometimes translated as Ocean Day, on the third Monday of July.
The day is designed to “appreciate blessings from mountains.”
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