How does Japan mark Mother's Day?
母の日
- Local date
- May 9, 2027
- When is it?
- The second Sunday of May
Japan's Haha no Hi is also the second Sunday in May, and its most concrete trace is in flower statistics. The Ministry of Agriculture's briefing on the flower sector notes that imports make up about 28 per cent of domestic cut-flower distribution by volume, with carnations and chrysanthemums particularly high — precisely because demand for them concentrates on occasions like Mother's Day and the equinoctial weeks. The measurable footprint of this holiday in Japan is a spike in an entire industry's import curve.
What is this topic?
Four places keep Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May; Indonesia keeps it on 22 December — and there it is not a day for thanking mothers but a political commemoration of the first Indonesian Women's Congress of 1928. This page compares how the day was established in each place: a congressional resolution, a statute that names it and explicitly gives no day off, a peak in the cut-flower trade, or the starting point of a women's movement.
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