Japanese Culture
The Ages Japan Marks With a Ceremony
Three, five and seven get a shrine visit; twenty gets a city hall ceremony; forty-two is the year men are told to be careful. What each age ritual involves.
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Kazoedoshi: Japan’s Other Way of Counting Age
You are one at birth and everyone gains a year at New Year. A baby born on 30 December is two years old on 2 January - and that count still decides four ceremonies.