I think a lot about how by all rights society should be using a calendar designed a whole lot more recently than the Gregorian calendar but we're locked into it because it would decouple Christian holy days as a centerpiece of the weekhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1231721667904172034 …
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But it's especially true for Japan, which was an early adopter of the Gregorian calendar during the Meiji era for the sake of intentionally Westernizing To be fair, the calendar they had before was the product of Chinese cultural imperialism
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Japan notably celebrates the Western New Year on January 1 and not the East Asian New Year ("Chinese New Year", "Lunar New Year") for this reason
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