2019 calendar

One student on Tuesday evenings recently purchased a new leather-bound diary.
Normally in Japan, the pages at the end of April and early May would show the cluster of annual, national holidays which are known as Golden Week.
However, the pages were blank, as was the 23rd of December 2019!
The reason, of course, was the coming abdication of the Emperor in early 2019.
The official holiday dates for next year have yet to be decided and the publisher was clearly aware of that fact.
The official holiday schedule announcement is expected by November and may mean up to 10 days holiday around Golden Week in 2019, so be prepared!
The 2019 calendar I bought from a 100yen shop sadly wasn't up to date, but I'm not going to lose much sleep about that.....​
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