are expected to hit various parts of Japan. The official start of summer, called “rikka,” is May 5. In conventional years, it is only the start of summer under the traditional calendar.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga unveiled the new era name "Reiwa" The calendar works by putting the era name together with whichever year it is since the corresponding emperor came ...

FX Empire's Economic Calendar offers a global perspective on financial events and economic indicators, with updates as new data becomes available. It is designed to provide a general overview for ...

Next year, Reiwa 7 by the Japanese calendar, marks a prologue to a new century, the second since the dawn of the Showa era (1926-89). Showa’s curtain rose on a nation still reeling from natural ...

Every emperor's reign has a name, or "gengo", which is used alongside the Western calendar to count years - so the choice is taken pretty seriously. As millions of Japanese wait for the big ...

NHK spoke with an expert on Japan's Imperial system and the importance of era names. Japanese calendars often show Gengo as well as the western era The era name, Gengo in Japanese, is used ...