Golden Week

[Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow]

It's now the start of Golden Week in Japan, that period at the end of 
April and beginning of May (depending on the calendar each year) when 
there are a series of holidays, allowing people to go on vacation for 
nearly a week.

It was reiterated on the news last night that the term "Golden Week" was 
the product of moving picture industry publicity in the 1950s, with some 
crediting Daiei's Nagata Masaichi or one of his underlings with coming up 
with the term as a way of trying to sell films over the vacation period.

Anyone heard more specific tales?

Happy holidays,

Aaron Gerow
Yokohama National University
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