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A Happy New Year 2010!
In Australia, Christmas is the biggest event in the year! but in Japan, the New Year’s Day is the biggest event in the year.
Usually first 3 days are a new year celebration period and spend time with family. Most people go to a shrine for praying for a year.
Children can get New Year’s gift (usually money) from relatives and becoming the richest in the family ^^.
These days supermarkets are open from a New Year’s Day and it is available to buy at stores, so it becomes less family to make an “Osechi-Ryori” which is Japanese Traditional New Year’s Food, but still some family cook it until the New Year’s Eve.
About Osechi Ryori’s origin, you can read from here.
In old time, Japanese ladies cook 3 meals a day for whole year (maybe still like that) and no rest for preparing foods for a family. For avoiding that and have a rest and celebrate a New Year for first 3 days, Osechi-Ryori is prepared until a New Year’s Eve. (Of course there is religious reason, as well).
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