Japan Edition
World Good Neighbor Hello Day leads today's complete edition for Japan.
Daily Edition
Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for the first greeting, the open door, and the small courtesies that make streets, villages, apartments, and shops feel human.
The mochi that was offered to the deity at New Year's (kagami mochi) is broken and eaten on January 11th. The mochi is not cut with a knife (which would be inauspicious) but broken by hand or with a wooden mallet. The broken mochi is cooked in ozoni (mochi soup) or toasted and eaten with sweet bean paste. The act of breaking the mochi symbolizes the breaking of the old year's mirror and the start of the new.
You spot the forest elephant and the drill monkey as distinctive large mammals in Equatorial Guinea's rainforests. You find that residents most commonly keep dogs, cats, and parrots as household pets. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
