We celebrate O-shogatu (new year day) a lot.
Especially the first 3 days are called as 'San ga nichi' and they are basically holidays.
Until 7th of January are called as 'Maku no Uchi' and generally accepted as a day to celebrate the new year.
So, after starting work at your office on Jan. 4th until Jan 7th, you can say 'Happy new Year' to the people that you met first time in this new year.
Then people would talk how you spent New Year Vacation. So, it is worth reviewing Ko-Haku music show.
The most impressive musician of Ko-Haku was Kana Uemura who sang 'Toilet no Kamisama; Goddess in Toilet'
This song sang about her grandmother by whom Kana Uemura was grown up.
The grandmother kept saying to Kana Uemura that ' you have to clean a toilet because so beautiful goddess lives in toilet and you have to keep it clean so that the goddess is always happy and smile on you. Then you can be as beautiful as the goddess of toilet'
(Toilet cleaning is often cosindered as the most important thing to do to make people honest, generous and sincere.)
This song gradually became a hit song since Jan. 2010 from small local music radio show and got its upward momentum by word-of- mouth.
Check out this song at 'Goddess in Toilet.' Viewers reached 6 mil!! Amazing.
