Hiatus Post 2020.04.28 Tuesday
休けい時間 きゅうけい じかん
令和2年4月28日 火曜日
Japan has a big holiday season coming up, and it’s a “season” because
it combines a lot of separate holidays, some of which are official holidays.
Golden Week (Japan)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Golden Week (ゴールデンウィーク, Gōruden Wīiku, Gōruden Uīiku) (or GW)
is a week from the 29th of April to early May containing a number of Japanese
holidays
Holidays celebrated
·
29 April
·
3 May
·
4 May
o Citizen's Holiday (国民の休日, Kokumin no
Kyūjitsu), 1985–2006
·
5 May
o Children's Day (子供の日, Kodomo no Hi),
also known as Boys' Day or the Feast of Banners, traditionally celebrated
as Tango no Sekku (端午の節句).
Note that "kokumin no kyūjitsu" or "citizen's holiday" is a
generic term for any official holiday. The 4th of May was, until 2007,
an unnamed but official holiday because of a rule that converts any day between
two holidays into a new holiday. …
History
The National Holiday
Laws, promulgated in July 1948, declared nine official holidays.
Since many were concentrated in a week spanning the end of April to early May,
many leisure-based industries experienced spikes in their revenues. The film
industry was no exception. In 1951, the film Jiyū Gakkō recorded higher ticket
sales during this holiday-filled week than any other time in the year
(including New Year's and Obon). This prompted the
managing director of Daiei Film Co., Ltd. to
dub the week "Golden Week" based on the Japanese radio lingo “golden time,” which denotes the period with
the highest listener ratings. At the
time, 29 April was a national holiday celebrating the birth of the Shōwa Emperor. Upon his death in 1989, the day
was renamed "Greenery Day." In 2007, Greenery Day was moved to 4 May, and 29
April was renamed Shōwa Day to
commemorate the late Emperor.[3]
Current practice
Many Japanese nationals take paid time off
during this holiday, and some companies are closed down completely and give
their employees time off. Golden Week is the longest vacation period of the
year for many Japanese workers. Two other Japanese holidays are observed for
most or all of a week: Japanese New Year in January and Obon
Festival in August.
Golden Week is a popular time for holiday travel.
Despite significantly higher rates, flights, trains, and hotels are often fully
booked. Popular destinations include Asia, Guam, Saipan, and Hawaii, major cities on the West Coast of North America such as Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego, San Francisco, and Vancouver, and a number of cities in Europe and Australia.
The Super GT Fuji 500 km auto race is held on Golden
Week.
2019 schedule[
Golden Week in 2019 was particularly long due
to the 2019
Japanese imperial transition, with the succession of the new emperor
on 1 May designated as an additional national holiday. As 29 April and 3 May
are already holidays, this caused 30 April and 2 May to be public holidays as
well, making 2019's Golden Week ten consecutive days, from Saturday 27 April
through Monday 6 May.
2020 impact of pandemic
Due to the coronavirus
pandemic, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has discouraged holiday travel
during "Golden Week" (GW) to prevent spread of infections. Tokyo
residents have been advised to stay home for Stay Home Week (ステイホーム週間, Sutei
hoomu shūkan) . The rebranded
"Stay Home Week to Save Lives" will run from April 25 through to May
6th.. Osaka governor Hirofumi Yoshimura has announced that schools
will be closed on May 7 and 8 and businesses in the Kansai [Osaka大阪] region have been encouraged to extend the
holiday period through the weekend until May 11th.
Japanese 3-4
You
will be doing the class assignments created by Yoko Sensei from now on. Send them /post them to me, however, as I
will be grading and posting them in Skyward.
Japanese 5-6
If you look at page 354 of Lesson 11 of Nakama you will see a round diagram of the cycle of the year, with seasons
and months. This is another to help us
focus on memory, 思い出（おもいで）. Coming up is Golden Week, described in the
(somewhat edited) explanation from Wikipedia, above. Since it is a relatively
extended time, many Japanese take the opportunity to travel. Some Japanese businessmen I met (when I
worked for a small Japanese company) actually came to the Chicago suburbs to
play golf because, even with the air fare, it was at that time cheaper to play
golf here than in Japan.
People like to talk about their experiences duringゴールデンウィーク Golden Week in past years.
Oh, and by the way --
Please look at Flipgrid: Here is the link to the new assignment on Flipgrid. https://flipgrid.com/c68218ac Your
code for Flipgrid is nihongo5634. Access Japanese 5-6 flipgrid with your school
email address ending: @student.oprfhs.org キメル先生より
宿題 しゅくだい Homework (due FRIDAY)
Read the sentences below: one person’s experiences
during ゴールデンウィーク
A. 下の日本語を英語で書いて下さい。Think of this as the childhood
memory of one Japanese exchange student.
一． 子供の時 の ゴールデンウィーク に、私 は お母さん の りょうしん の まち に 帰りました。
二． 町（まち）のちかく に うみ が ありました が、さむかった から、およいだ こと は ありませんでした。
三． でも、じてんしゃ に のった こた ありました。
四． そした 山 も のぼりました。
五． そぼ と そふ （おばあさん と おじいさん）は 元気で明るい（あかるい）人 でした。
六．みな は 楽しくて、よく わらいました。
B. We will learn how to make the plain past
negative forms gof verbs during this lesson. There are some examples below. Can you figure out the rule? What is it?
すいません すわない すわなかった
勉強しません しない しなかった
なきません なかない なかなかった
とりません とらない とらなかった
来ます こない こなかった
C. Here's
the link to the Nakama textbook, online:
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