Japanese festivals revolve primarily around celebrations with family though there are certain occasions where men and women come together to celebrate. Some of the popular festivals celebrated in Japan are as follows:

• New Year"s Day: New year"s day is the most widely celebrated festival in Japan and is a complete family affair. People travel to visit their families during this time and all shops are shut to celebrate this time of the year. A lot of families also travel abroad at this time of the year as part of their yearly vacation, though the holiday period is only three days. Families also visit shrines to pray for health, wealth and overall well-being.

• Coming of Age Day - Seijin No Hi: This is another widely celebrated festival in Japan that falls on the second Monday of every January, where all young adults who have come of age, i.e. turned 20 that year, come together. Young women are dressed in extravagant kimonos that cost several thousand yen. They go with their families to Shinto shrines and pray for their well-being. This is a very popular festival and one of those rare occasions where you will see so many young girls dressed in their traditional outfits.

• Valentine"s Day: Just like in most parts of the world, Valentine"s Day is celebrated in Japan with great fervor. However, the Japanese Valentine"s day is a little twisted because here, only women are expected to profess their love for men by giving those gifts, mainly chocolate. There is another occasion where men do the same for women (White day - March 14). Valentine"s Day in Japan is symbolic of a deep commitment and not something that is celebrated for the heck of it. However, on this day women also gift the other men in their lives such as friends and male members of their families.

• Girl"s Day - Hina Matsuri: Popularly known as the doll festival, Hina Matsuri falls on March 3 each year. On this day parents of girls display dolls of an ancient Imperial couple in their houses, and in some cases, dolls of the couple"s courtesans and other servants along with peach blossoms and rice cakes are displayed at multiple levels to make one huge display. These dolls are displayed to take away bad luck from the girls of the house so that good fortune prevails. At the end of the day, i.e. midnight, the dolls should be put back into their boxes; else it is believed that the daughters of the house may never get married. As a leading global manufacturer of crushing and milling equipment, we offer advanced, rational solutions for any size-reduction requirements, including quarry, aggregate, grinding production and complete stone crushing station. We also supply individual impact crusher and ball mill as well as spare parts of them.