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Video: New Year and Osechi Foods

Subject: Other Topics

Level: Key Stage 3 / GCSE+

Age: 11-15 years / 15+ years

Resource Type: Videos

The New Year is the biggest annual celebration in the Japanese calendar and it's a time when families get together to celebrate. Osechi ryori are traditional Japanese New Year's foods. They are eaten as the first meal of the new year and each one has a special symbolic meaning.

In these short talks, Tomomi Shimizu explains how the New Year holiday is typically spent in Japan as well as the different foods eaten and their meanings. The videos are in Japanese with English subtitles.

Japanese New Year and Osechi Ryori

This video is in Japanese with English subtitles (see the subtitle/closed captions option to enable subtitles if they do not appear automatically).

The Meanings in Osechi Ryori

This video is in Japanese with English subtitles (see the subtitle/closed captions option to enable subtitles if they do not appear automatically).