Today in Japan: 対米英開戦記念日 (Taibeiei Kaisen - TopicsExpress



          

Today in Japan: 対米英開戦記念日 (Taibeiei Kaisen Kinenbi)/Pacific War Memorial Day At 7:49 am on this day in 1941 the Japanese Imperial Navy launched a surprise attack on US forces in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This started a war that lasted for the next 3 and a half years and took some 36 million lives, the majority of them civilians. 針供養 (Harkuyou)/Memorial day for old needles Those who use needles for sewing take their old broken needles to temples and shrines and place them in tofu or other soft objects. In most of the country, this is done on February 8, but in the Kansai region it is December 8.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 10:03:58 +0000

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