Japanese Heisei Era End Could Mean New Public Holiday

Sources: 日本銀行 (Tokyo) and Japan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The announcement, earlier this month, that Japanese Emperor Akihito intended to abdicate his throne while alive, might mean that, based on past precedent, a new annual non-working public holiday could be added to the list of annual non-working public holidays in Japan in the coming years. [full story]