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Category: China, Korea, Japan, and Mongolia
Events, awareness days, holidays, celebrating, occurring in or tied to the nations of China, North and South Korea, Japan, and Mongolia.
East Asian events occur in or have cultural ties to China, the Koreas, Japan, or Mongolia.
China Japan & Korea Events
Buddha Day (CN): May 19
Daily
Buddha Day in China marks the birthday of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha as it relates to the Chinese calendar on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month. This day is marked in other countries as...
January
Advertising Week, Tokyo (JP): May 27- June...
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January
Cheese Rolling Competition, Gloucestershir...
Daily
All you need is a 7-9 pound ball of Gloucester cheese, good running legs and a sense of humor for the 300 yard downhill race and festival held each year in Cooper's Hill England on the last Monday in May....
January
Armed Forces Day (KR)(1950): October 1
Daily
Armed Forces Day in South Korea marks the anniversary of October 1, 1950, the day UN and Korean forces drove communist forces north of the 38th parallel.
January
National Day, (CN)(1949): October 1
Daily
National Day in China marks the anniversary of October 1, 1949, the official founding of the Peoples Republic of China. This is a national holiday.
January
Golden Week (CN): October 1-7
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January
Tan-gun Day (KR/KP)(2333 BC): October 3
Daily
October 3, 2333 BC, the legend goes that Tan-gun established the Kingdom of Choson on the Korean peninsula in Pyongyang. Each year this day is celebrated as the birth of the Korean nation.
January
Alphabet Day (KR) (1446): October 9
Daily
October 9, 1446, King Sejong (Yi Dynasty) created the 24 character phonetic alphabet of Korea called Hangul. This allowed people speaking other languages to write out the sounds of the words represented...
January
Double Ten Day (CN/TW)(1911): October 10
Daily
Double Ten Day in Taiwan (and secretly celebrated in China by many), commemorates the October 10,1911, Wuchang Uprising, an event that lead to the end of the Qing Dynasty and helped to create the Republic...
January
Double Ninth Festival (CN): October 14
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January
Overseas Chinese Day (TW): October 21
Daily
A day for an annual migration of mainland Chinese to the island nation of Taiwan.
January
Retrocession Day (TW)(1945): October 25
Daily
Retrocession Day in Taiwan marks the anniversary of the end of fifty years of Japanese rule in 1945. Japan took control of the island in 1894, when China lost to it during the Sino-Japanese War. Today, Ta...
January
Chiang Kai-shek Day (TW)(1887): October 31
Daily
Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 - April 5, 1975) was a military leader and politician who fought against communism. With the establishment of the communist government in China in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek f...
January
Foundation Days, (TW)(1912): January 1-2
Daily
Foundation Days in Taiwan marks the anniversary of January 1, 1912, the day the Republic of China was created. This is a public holiday.
January
Kakizome (JP): January 2
Daily
The Japanese have a tradition every new year, one that greats the change of calendar with Kakizome, or the first writing of the year in Japanese Calligraphy. These can be poetry, words of wisdom, hopes or...
January
Nanakusa (JP): January 7
Daily
Nanakusa is a Japanese tradition originating during the 600s AD. It features the seven herbs and vegetables given to the emperor at the time for their medicinal value: Aona, Chickweed, Cottonweed, Hotoke-...
January
Coming-of-Age Day (JP): January 10
Daily
For all the children who reach the age of 20 during the previous year, Seiji-no-hi or Coming-of-Age Day is their own national holiday. In Japan one officially reaches adulthood at the age of twenty. The...
January
Laba Festival (CN): January 10
Daily
Originally, the celebration of the new harvest known as the Laba Festival was a national event in China and other Buddhist countries. With the spread of Buddhism throughout the region, it became a day of...
January
Bodhi Day (B)(CN)(532 BC): January 13
Daily
Bodhi Day celebrates the enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism. Japan celebrates this event annually on December 8th. People following the Chinese religious calendar celebrate it on...
January
Korean American Day (1903): January 13
Daily
Honoring the first 102 Korean immigrants to arrive in the United States on January 13, 1903; The US congress set aside this day beginning in 2005 with a resolution. The Korea Economic Institute of Ameri...
January
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