Chinese Zodiac
How the Animal of the Year Runs December
Cards, stamps, shrine plaques and department store windows: the animal arrives in November and is gone by February. What to send, buy and look for.
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Chinese Zodiac
Japan’s Eto vs the Chinese Zodiac: Four Real Differences
Japan starts the zodiac year on 1 January, calls the eighth sign a sheep and the twelfth a boar - and has one combination that cut the national birth rate by a quarter.