Days off

 

    I grew up with all the holidays that you would expect from living in the United States. Christmas, Halloween, Easter, etc. Growing up with Spanish culture, however, I grew up celebrating more religious holidays, or at least there was a greater emphasis placed on celebrating them. This was normal to me of course, my parent's culture was heavily entwined with religion, and it was just natural to be heavily religious. Specifically Catholic holidays like Palm Sunday, Ash Wednesday, and an entire week called holy week. These take place in Spring, closer to Easter than Christmas, so the early four months feel like back-to-back work to me someone who doesn't consider themselves religious.
    Japanese culture seems to be fairly similar to ours. Holidays focused on rest and relaxing with families. I can only imagine the pain that would come with finding out you'd have to work on Christmas, I'm sure someone does, but I find celebrating the Equinox and a holiday called Children's Day pretty cool. Sure the United States has a "National Children's Day" but it doesn't warrant anything special. Also celebrating the emperor's birthday would be like celebrating one of our presidents' birthdays instead of just having presendents day, a holiday we also don't get off. Japanese holidays sound much less stressful.