What Do Christmas And Japanese New Year Have In Common?

5. Sending Cards

Much like the Christmas tradition of sending greetings cards, the Japanese will send postcards called nengajō to all their friends and family. Very often the Japanese will paint a design on the nengajō themselves, often incorporating the animal of the Chinese zodiac ruling that year. The tradition of sending nengajō is taken very seriously . It’s very bad form to send them late, and if you don’t send them at all people may think that you or someone in you family has died.