Holidays..India & Japan

Got a mail today morning from my PL with the subject :oyesumi wo itadakimasu [I'm on leave]. So thought of looking to the list of Japanese holidays and there came the surpising facts abt the holidays these hard workers are njoying.

Always I thought India is the country with higher number of holidays : 13 national hoilidays a year and few more local holidays.
But now I feel Japanese are njoing more holidays than we Indians. Number of official holidays in Japan is 15.

List of Japanese National holidays :
Jan 1 : o-shogatsu [New Year Day]
Jan 2nd Mon : seijin-no-hi [Coming of Age Day]
Feb 11 : kenkoku-kinenbi [National Foundation Day]
March 21 : shumbun-no-hi [Vernal Equinox Day]
April 29 : midori-no-hi [Greenery Day]
May 3 : kempo-kinembi [Constitution Day]
May 4 : Kokumin-no-kyujitsu [People's Day]
May 5 : kodomo-no-hi [Children's Day]
July 20 : umi-no-hi [Maraine Day]
Sep18 : keiro-no-hi [Respect For Aged Day]
Sep 23 : shubun-no-hi [Autumnal Equinox Day]
Oct 2nd Mon : taiiku-no-hi [Sports Day]
Nov 3 : bunka-no-hi [Culture Day]
Nov 23 : kinro-kansha-no-hi [Labour Thanks giving Day]
Dec. 23 : tenno-tanjobi [Emperor's Birthday]

Apart from the above list, Japanese njoy few more authorized unofficial holidays,
Jan 1-3 : New Year holiday
April 29 - May 5 : Golden Week (Along with Sat and Sun you can get nearly 10 days holidays...)
August 15 - Aug 18 : o-bon (Festival of Souls) and natsu yasumi (Summer holiday....in August!!!)
Dec. 23 - Dec. 25 : Unexpected.....Chirstmas is not a national holiday in Japan. But since it comes along with their Emperor's b'day X'mas too is a holiday.
Dec. 31 : omisoka (New Year's Eve)

January is month of holidays....last January I had office only for 13 days. June.....oh God here in Japan too there is no holiday in June.
Finally the total number of holidays in a year accounts to almost 28...nearly a month. But being hard workers Japanese deserve all these holidays atleast to njoy a small part of their life.

How it will be if we have this many number of holidays in India!!! But apart from our official holidays we ourselves declare too many holidays for our own reasons....which may even count to twice of their total holidays...lets njoy life in our own way!!!

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