Why so many unofficial food days in Japan? Puns, language puzzles, historical events, and sometimes because industry says so.

Take Banana no hi (Banana Day). Broken down, the Japanese pronunciation—ba-na-na—corresponds to the Japanese for eight (ba) and seven (nana). The seventh day of the eighth month, August 7, thus becomes “Banana Day.”

↩︎ Atlas Obscura

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