Culture | Japanese Language

This Is the Japanese Idiom Everyone Needs to Learn in the New Year

It teaches you to cherish every moment — for it is never coming back

Alvin T.
Japonica Publication
4 min readJan 11, 2023

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Photo by Library of Congress on Unsplash

Japan is full of seasons. Japanese culture is particularly attuned, not just to seasonality, but to the transitions between seasons. And what better time to talk about…

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Alvin T.
Japonica Publication

Sociologist-thinker-marketer in Tokyo. Editor of Japonica. Follow to read about life in Japan, modern society, and poignant truths infused with irony.