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November 3: Culture Day (Bunka no Hi) and 2 more

Japan has held Culture Day on November third since nineteen forty-eight, and the Order of Culture has been awarded on it since nineteen thirty-six; yogurt is not eligible.

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorIt's November third, it's Culture Day, and I brought forty-eight tubs of yogurt, because that's the good kind of culture!

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorChip. Culture Day is a public holiday in Japan, and per Wikipedia it promotes culture, the arts and academic endeavour. Nobody is promoting yogurt.

  3. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorArts and learning! So I'll hang the yogurt in a gallery and teach it a class.

  4. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn Japan, towns hold art exhibitions and parades. The holiday was first held in nineteen forty-eight.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA parade! I'm putting the yogurt on a float.

  6. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorHakone holds a Feudal Lord's Parade, in Edo-period costume. You would be the only one in a party hat.

  7. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorI own a samurai hat. It's for another holiday.

  8. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAnd the Order of Culture has been awarded on this day since nineteen thirty-six. The Apollo 11 astronauts received it.

  9. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAstronauts? Then the yogurt's going to space.

  10. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe astronauts also landed on the Moon first. The yogurt has a long way to go.

  11. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThen I'm nominating the yogurt, and I'm bringing the other forty-seven tubs as references.

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