Jan 12: Seijin No Hi (Japan)

Coming of age at age 20... sounds like a great idea.

clipped from www.multiculturalcalendar.com January 2009   Seijin No Hi This day celebrates Coming-of-Age of the youth of Japan who are twenty years old. They wear traditional clothes and visit the shrines where the family announce their adulthood to the spirits. This is a national holiday. Seijin No Hi Japan order this calendar