do japanese celebrate chinese new year?
New Year's Day, Chinese New Year, Korean New Year, Vietnamese New Year, Mongolian New Year, Tibetan New Year The Japanese New Year (æ­£æ, ShÅgatsu) is an annual festival with its own customs. Since 1873, the official Japanese New Year has been celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar, on January 1 of each year, New Year's Day (åæ¥, Ganjitsu). However, many traditional events of the Japanese New Year are still celebrated on the first day of the year on the modern TenpÅ calendar, the last official lunisolar calendar which was used until 1872 in Japan.