Japan in October
Solar terms this month: Cold Dew, Frost Falls.
Events and customs
- Martial ArtsEssential puro yakyuプロ野球Japanese professional baseball
- Food & DrinkEssential kome米rice as the center of the meal
- Modern JapanEssential taifu台風the typhoons that reach Japan each year
- Seasons & NatureEssential koyo紅葉autumn leaves, and going to look at them
- Annual EventsStandard otsukimiお月見moon viewing in autumn
- Annual EventsStandard supotsu no hiスポーツの日Sports Day, the second Monday of October
- Annual EventsStandard koromogae衣替えthe day everyone changes to summer or winter clothing
- Annual EventsStandard halloween japan日本のハロウィンHalloween as a street costume event
- Food & DrinkStandard odenおでんa winter stew of fish cakes, daikon and eggs
- Food & DrinkStandard sansai and mushrooms山菜ときのこwild vegetables and mushrooms from the mountains
- HistoryStandard the 1964 Tokyo Olympics1964年の東京オリンピックthe games that announced Japan's recovery
- Seasons & NatureStandard kiku菊chrysanthemum
- Seasons & NatureStandard akisame zensen秋雨前線the autumn rain front that brings weeks of gray, wet weather
- Seasons & NatureStandard tanada棚田terraced rice paddies cut into mountain slopes
- Seasons & NatureStandard listening to insect songs虫の声を聴くenjoying the sound of autumn insects
- PlacesStandard Nikko Toshogu日光東照宮the shrine where Tokugawa Ieyasu is enshrined, covered in carvings
- School LifeStandard undokai運動会school sports day
- School LifeStandard bunkasai文化祭the school culture festival
- ShintoStandard Izumo Taisha出雲大社the shrine where the gods gather
- Work CultureStandard jinji ido人事異動internal transfers decided by the company
- Annual EventsAdvanced ebisu koえびす講the merchants' festival for the god of business
- Annual EventsAdvanced jusanya十三夜the second moon-viewing night, about a month after the harvest moon
- Seasons & NatureAdvanced jugai獣害crop damage by deer, boar and bears
- ShintoAdvanced kannazuki神無月the month the gods are away