Japan's unique “Premium Friday”

  • 地区

    • 关东
    • 东京
  • 分类

    • 其他
  • 更新日期

    • 2017-10-25

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On February 24, 2017, a national policy “Premium Friday” was departed. This day, many events held at various part of Japan.

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What is t“Premium Friday”?
(1) Last Friday of every month.
(2) Workers can return to home earlier than usual.
(3) This is a chance for enterprisers to shoring up consumption.
(4) This day, workers can kick off in the afternoon, and have extra time for trips, taking lessons, enjoying meal with families,etc.

IMG_2030“Premium Friday”, not only drive to goose spending, but also aid efforts on work-life balance.

Let's back to February 24.

This day, there was a event held from 15:00 at a shopping area in a local city (about 1 hour from Tokyo). This event was called "The 1st Strawberry Festival". It was a symbolic event of “Premium Friday”.

IMG_2029Enterprisers prepared 20 wagons of finite original menu foods. Popular musicians entrance on the stage that day.It was a blast. There person who would still work dispatched usual joined the event from 15:00 to 20:00. About 1000 people spread and enjoyed this event. It was a very significant day.

IMG_2039This mouth, Oct.27th is the "Premium Friday". What is the recent state of "Premium Friday"?

I would like to share with you next time!

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