[Viki Community Team] What is Golden Week? A Look at Japan’s Special Holiday Period

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Hello Contributors!

As promised, here’s a closer look at why Golden Week in Japan is one of the country’s most celebrated periods!

Golden Week is a series of national holidays that occur one right after another! It’s a time when many people in Japan take time off to travel, visit family, or enjoy the beauty of spring. It’s considered to be one of the busiest travel seasons of the year with festivals, events, and celebrations happening all across the country.

Here are the holidays that make up this special week:

  • April 29: Shōwa Day (昭和の日, Shōwa no Hi) – A day to honor the birthday of Emperor Showa and reflect on Japan’s history.
  • May 3: Constitution Memorial Day (憲法記念日, Kenpō Kinenbi) – Celebrating the promulgation of Japan’s post-war constitution in 1947.
  • May 4: Greenery Day (みどりの日, Midori no Hi) – A day to appreciate nature and the environment.
  • May 5: Children’s Day (こどもの日, Kodomo no Hi) – A day to celebrate children’s happiness and well-being, often marked by flying colorful carp-shaped streamers called koinobori.

If you missed it, click here to learn how to earn the Golden Week Badge!

We’re also excited to share the Golden Week Badge design with you! :art: Here’s what it looks like:
golden-week

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Cute fish flags! :slightly_smiling_face:

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Nice Badges! I used to have those 2 carp windsocks, they were in my kids rooms. My hubby got them during business trip in Japan, back then I wasn’t aware of its meaning.

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@vikicommunity
I would really like to try to get all the golden week badges, but unfortunately the Portuguese language community is limited to only doing the TE and FE of the pre-subbs. Reaching many beds has become an impossible dream for us. Please, for the future, think of a way to include all languages. How about giving us the chance to contribute as subtitlers to earn future badges?

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In short, for the top 100, we would need projects to contact us for subtitles. This generates 5 times more subtitles than TE and FE. And Japanese dramas, in addition to being smaller in quantity than Chinese ones, have fewer episodes, and each episode lasts a maximum of 25 to 30 minutes. With the subtitles ready, productivity is even lower. Unless the moderator and his team mess with the subtitles, which is cheating and prohibited here on Viki.

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Koinobori! I love so much! <3

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