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S-s-s-somethin' from the Search Logs

I figured Thanksgiving, as a fundamentally North American holiday, did not have an analog in Japan. Lately, upon seeing searches for Thanksgiving in Japanese and the symbol for Thanksgiving in kanji, I figured that, if they were written at all, Japanese Thanksgiving wishes would be expressed in katakana: ハピサンクスギビング (hapi sankusugibingu).

Upon looking it up though, I was surprised to find that there is a kanji expression for Thanksgiving: 感謝祭 (pronounced kanshasai).

それから、いい感謝祭をな。

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:06

Reader Comments

Thu Nov 23 11:31:27 2006, by Andy:

Many thanks come to you for searching the Japanese's way of saying Thanksgiving. I was distressed to figuring it out after Googling it up and not coming up with any relevant results until I stumbled upon this page. I have a sakubun to write about, and so, I decided to compose one about a "Thanksgiving" meal I had with some friends the night before this big event.

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