And there are many funny people in Osaka. New Year's Day is the biggest annual event in Japan. We go to Shinto shrines or Buddhist temples to worship on the morning of New Year's Day. At the shrines and temples we pray to the gods for good fortune during the coming year. And there is another costum in Japan.
Parents give a small sum of money as a New Year's present to young children.
Elementary, junior high and high school students usually receive it. It is not decided how much money parents should give in general. It depends on parents. Many people in the West seem to think that arranged marriages are awful. But it's not like the old days when young people were often forced to accept their parents' selection because the parents thought they knew better or because the match was necessary for the family.