Japanese ”Golden Week”

Do you know "Golden Week(GW)"? GW is a period of consecutive national holidays in Japan from the end of April to the beginning of May each year. Busy Japanese businessmen look forward to this week very much every year. This is because there are no long vacations in Japan.

Here are the dates for this year's GW.

April 29 (Fri.) Showa Day
April 30 (Sat.) Weekend
May 1 (Sun.) Weekend
May 2 (Mon.) Weekday
May 3 (Tue.) Constitution Day
May 4 (Wed.) Greenery Day
May 5 (Thu.) Children's Day
May 6 (Fri.) Weekday
May 7 (Sat.) Weekend
May 8 (Sun.) Weekend

If you take off the 2nd and 6th of May, you can have up to 10 consecutive holidays. This is the longest holiday in Japan.

I will now introduce some tweets from some Japanese businessmen.

I wanna live like this for the rest of my life.
Seriously, don't start working.

He's a new recruit, in his second year, and he's already exhausted from the job. People find his situation interesting and he has more than 10,000 followers.

How to spend GW this year

@mofu_sand is an artist who uses cat illustrations to represent the daily life of office workers. She has over 200,000 followers.

Here are some statements from new employees about GW.
(I don't think I've ever been so thankful for Golden Week. Just the fact that I don't have to go to the office is fun.)
(All right! Tomorrow and the day after that, I'll play to my heart's content!)
(But after Golden Week…)

@kisshot51 created a post using dolls to represent Japanese company employees, and has over 300,000 followers!

Response:
Even while I'm having fun, I think about what happens after the fun is over.

I'm still in high school, but school and work are a lot alike.

Here's the sad news. Tomorrow is a weekday.

How do you spend your days off?
Do you have long vacations in your country?
We have the GW in Japan!

Japanese

日本にほんのゴールデンウィーク

ゴールデンウィーク（GW）をあなたは知しっていますか？GWとは日本にほんのホリデーシーズンで、４月がつ末まつから５月がつ初しょ週しゅうの祝しゅく日じつが重かさなる期間きかんのことを言いいます。今年ことしのGWは最大さいだい１０日間かかんで、これは日本にほんのサラリーマンにとっては一年ねんで最もっとも長ながい休日きゅうじつ期間きかんです。SNS上じょうではこのGWについてたくさんの投稿とうこうが上あがっています。「もう仕事しごとに行いきたくない」と言いったメッセージを込こめたツイートはよく拡散かくさんされ、サラリーマンの悲かなしさを物語ものがたっています。あなたの国くにには長期ちょうき休暇きゅうかがありますか？よければコメントしてくださいね。

Words

ゴールデンウィーク；Golden Week

ホリデーシーズン；holiday season

祝日しゅくじつ；national holiday

期間きかん；period

サラリーマン；office worker (salary man)

投稿とうこう；post

ツイート；Tweet

拡散かくさん；spreading, diffusion

長期ちょうき休暇きゅうか；long vacation