Japan August 11 Public Holiday Voted

Sources: 朝日新聞デジタル (Tokyo) and Japan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Earlier today, Japan's upper house of parliament approved the amendment to Japan’s Holiday Act to designate August 11, as a new annual Japanese non-working public holiday, to be known as Mountain Day (Yama no Hi), thus adding one annual non-working public holiday in Japan, beginning in 2016. [full story]