When millions of Japanese get their customary New Year's greeting cards Monday, the sheep that's on the postage stamps will have finished knitting the scarf it began 12 years ago.

In an online survey asking 5,000 people, aged between 15 and 79, to list items or services they plan to trim their budgets on heading into 2025, New Year's cards ranked first at 10.8 percent.

Similar to the Western custom of sending Christmas cards, in Japan there is a tradition of sending new year’s greeting cards, called nengajo (年賀状).Since they are nowadays written on postcards, they ...

Around 743 million New Year greeting cards, or nengajo, were delivered across Japan on Monday, although that figure is down nearly 16 per cent from the number delivered on the first day of 2023 ...

On Jan. 1, legions of Japan Post Co. employees delivered millions of nengajō (New Year's cards) to homes nationwide. Subscribe . Digital Print . May 12, 2025 . Subscribe. Digital Print.

Start your holiday season with a celebration of Japanese culture! Create masks inspired by the Noh musical drama tradition in Japan. Noh masks are made from Japanese cypress and typically worn by the ...

FUKUOKA -- New Year's greeting cards for 2025 have begun to be sold in Japan. With a postage rate increase last month, regular cards now cost 85 yen (around 55 cents), up from 63 yen.