{"id":76137,"date":"2008-01-07T11:01:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T02:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=59"},"modified":"2008-01-07T11:01:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T02:01:13","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/seasonal-topics\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/191227si.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>In Japan, we celebrate the new year holiday rather than Xmas. Xmas is not a national holiday. Many companies took holidays for the whole week of Dec 29 &#8211; Jan 6 this year.<br \/>\nWe can see traditional decorations using rice straw, pine leaves, and bamboo in front of houses, offices, and Matsumoto castle.<br \/>\nHave a wonderful new year!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/seasonal-topics\/happy-new-year\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/seasonal-topics\/happy-new-year\/\" data-text=\"Happy New Year!\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Japan, we celebrate the new year holiday rather than Xmas. 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