Lunar New Year is widely celebrated in Asian societies ... It's why South Korea, Vietnam, and Singapore celebrate, but Japan ...

the Lunar New Year. With roughly 74 percent of the population identifying as Asian — including more than 54 percent Chinese, as well as major Filipino, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese ...

BEIJING--Lunar New Year festivals and prayers marked the ... said the most popular overseas destinations this year are Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, the United ...

Lunar New Year is celebrated across China and in many ... The weak yen has spurred many Chinese nationals to visit Japan, while food is the biggest motivator for them to travel to the region.

Although Japan is in the Asian region, there is no nationwide custom of celebrating the Lunar New Year, but Ms Toda created the 4-panel comic (yonkoma-manga) on the similarities she noticed with ...

Hong Kong and the mainland are not the only places to celebrate Lunar New Year. The Japanese and the Koreans have Lunar New Year Festivals, as do the Vietnamese. In Vietnam, Lunar New Year is ...

Lunar New Year is the more widely used name for the new year festivities for many different countries, including Japan, Taiwan and Thailand, whereas Chinese New Year contains a lot of Lunar New ...

The World Health Organization and the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization this month warned that Lunar New Year festivities celebrated in much of Asia posed an increased risk of spreading the ...