Akemashite Omedetou!
Originally posted on Saturday, January 08, 2005
New year is like the biggest holiday in Japan. People send new year postcards called 年賀状(nengajo) instead of Christmas cards.
It's the year of the chicken thus the prominent rooster theme in most of the cards.
Of course in Japan sending nengajos to one's colleagues is considered a common practice and this is what I got from the postman today:
The cards came in a week late because my address in the company list missed the room number of the apartment I'm staying at :(
It's all just 義理 (giri), that is given out of obligation, but still it felt good to receive them.
Assimilating myself with Japanese culture, naturally, i sent cards to them as well that arrived on new year's day (assuming the addresses I sent them to are correct :P).
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