2010: The year of the Tiger

Happy New Year, everybody! Here’s a video clip from Reuters showing a ceremony in Osaka that formally handed over control of this year to its Chinese zodiac animal:

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Flashback: Here’s the handover ceremony from the previous year, in which a mouse handed over its reign to an ox (cow).

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13 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - January 1, 2010 at 11:16 am

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Roppongi Health

Asia celebrates according to lunar calendar, not western. January 1st is just another reason to drink.

James Watt

January 1st is just another reason to drink.

Which is TOTALLY different from western countries.
YAJIUMA

Unfortunately we Japanese don’t celebrate New Year by lunar calender.
It’s regretful we lost another chance to drink.

laggedreaction

Well, the whole Chinese Zodiac is based on the lunar calendar, so if you if you don’t use the lunar calendar then there is no reason to use the Chinese Zodiac.

Also, why would these animals sign over their reign on the Christian New Year? That makes no sense.

hiMe

The Chinese calendar is actually a lunisolar one. Whereas Japanese one is specifically based on Solar now.
YAJIUMA

Hahaha…
Even Shinto shrine and Buddhist temple adopted Gregorian calendar from 19th century.

hiMe

Japan chooses Arithmatic>Lunar Sightings.

Fruits basket is an excellent representation of the Zodiac. Even though the main character takes time getting used to.[Well did for me]
Laura

For 2010-2011, good luck little rabbit!
http://www.binary-apotheosis.com/blogs/index.php Rob A

The tiger’s all like “Aren’t you supposed to let me catch and eat that cow thing?”

Also, the preview image for the second video looks like the Ox stepped on the mouse.
Dynasty

What will they do on the year of the dragon, I wonder.

jikku

They will probably use tatsu-no-otoshigo (seahorse) or leafy sea dragon.
YAJIUMA

explanation:
A sea horse is called Tatsu-no-otoshigo, in Japanese.
Tatsu-no-otoshigo means an illegitimate child of dragon.

Jim

Actually its the year of the WHITE tiger, or gold according to the Chinese, occurs every 60 years.

2010: The year of the Tiger

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