Greeting cards for Japan
21 holidays and observances locally associated with Japan.
The list below gathers every CardVerse occasion that Wikidata associates with Japan. It includes nationally observed public holidays, religious holidays of the country’s major faith communities, cultural festivals, and civic remembrance days. If you’re sending a card to someone in Japan, this page is a good shortcut for finding an occasion they’re likely to recognise immediately.
Some occasions appear under more than one country — widely shared holidays like New Year, Christmas and Mother’s Day may show up here even though they aren’t exclusive to Japan. For occasions that aren’t country-specific (birthdays, anniversaries, sympathy, friendship cards), see the categories index.
- World Observances
2019 Japanese imperial transition
Japanese imperial abdication and transition
- Religious Holiday Cards
Buddha's birthday
birthday of the Prince Siddhartha Gautama
8th day of the 4th month in the Chinese calendar - World Observances
Chiba Prefectural Citizens' Day
A meaningful occasion celebrated around the world.
June 15 - Cultural & Heritage Cards
Children's Day
public holiday in Japan
May 5 - Cultural & Heritage Cards
Citizen's Holiday
holiday in Japan
- National & Civic Holiday Cards
Culture Day
national holiday in Japan
November 3 - Cultural & Heritage Cards
Double Ninth Festival
traditional Chinese holiday
ninth day of the ninth month in the Chinese calendar - World Observances
Emperor Jinmu Festival
A meaningful occasion celebrated around the world.
April 3 - World Observances
Emperor Taishō Festival
A meaningful occasion celebrated around the world.
December 25 - National & Civic Holiday Cards
Greenery Day
national holiday in Japan
May 4 - World Observances
Gunma Citizens' Day
A meaningful occasion celebrated around the world.
October 28 - Cultural & Heritage Cards
Kōreisai
Japanese holiday
Autumnal Equinox Day - National & Civic Holiday Cards
Marine Day
Japanese national holiday
third Monday in July - World Observances
music unit
musical group in Japan that describes themselves as a "unit"
- World Observances
Niiname-no-Matsuri
Japanese harvest ritual
Labor Thanksgiving Day - National & Civic Holiday Cards
Okinawa Memorial Day
Memorial day for the end of the Battle of Okinawa
June 23 - Religious Holiday Cards
Parinirvana Day
event to be held on the day of Buddha's death
March 15 - Cultural & Heritage Cards
Respect for the Aged Day
public holiday in Japan
third Monday in September - World Observances
Saitama Residents' Day
A meaningful occasion celebrated around the world.
November 14 - Cultural & Heritage Cards
Shōwa Day
public holiday in Japan
April 29 - World Observances
Tokyo Citizen's Day
A meaningful occasion celebrated around the world.
October 1
Cultural deep-dives for Japan
Beyond the dated calendar above, CardVerse keeps editorially curated cultural-detail pages for the major festivals of East Asia & Pacific. Each one covers origin, native-language greetings, design tips and reference links.
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Cultural guide
Dragon Boat Festival
An ancient summer festival of dragon-boat races and zongzi rice dumplings, commemorating the poet-statesman Qu Yuan.…
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Cultural guide
Obon
A 500-year-old Buddhist festival of remembrance for ancestors, marked by lantern-floating, bon odori dance, and quiet returns to t…
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Cultural guide
Tanabata
A summer star-festival commemorating the once-a-year meeting of the celestial lovers Orihime and Hikoboshi.…