Japan’s Free Extra Day Off: Why the Autumn Equinox and Mid-Autumn Fall in the Same Week
On 22 September this year, Japan gets a day off out of nowhere: by law, a day sandwiched between two public holidays automatically becomes a holiday. In the very same week, China, Korea and the Taiwan region of China all mark the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. One “free” day off leads to the calendar East Asia shares.