Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket, or any of the holidays I have mentioned. They belong to the country of Japan. Now that we have that down, let's move on.

Ok, this posting is for me to tell you what each holiday is. I suspect that, since I am writing this in English, half of you don't know what the hell half of these holidays are. Most of them are strickly Japanese. Well, I didn't, either. But now I do, so everyone say arigatou to Wikipedia! Anyway, on with the definitions.

You all should know what Christmas is. It's the holiday in the first three chapters of this collection of onefics.

Next, on the calendar, that is, would be Japanese New Year, which rests on the date of January 1st. Yeah, I know, that's the New Year you're used to, too. But in Japan, it is celebrated differently. New Year, for them, is only the beginning of a holiday season, called shogatsu or o-shogatsu (lasting from Jan 1-3, 1-7, or even 1-20), when visitors go to Buddist temples and ring bells, once for each sin. Tokonoma (or cakes with a daidai, a citrus fruit, on top) rest on altars. Families eat osechi, a special seasonal food that they prepare in December so they will not have to cook much over this holiday season. A card game called Karuta is usually played.

The next holiday I plan to do is Setsubun, Febuary 3rd, a traditional , yet not national, holiday marking the start of spring. It involves a lot of throwing soy beans at houses to bring good fortune. Each person also eats a number of soy beans equivilant to their age. Now, however, some eat peanuts.

The holiday next on the calendar is Valentines Day, Febuary 14th. It's pretty much the same in Japan as anywhere else, only the boys don't give out chocolates. Only the girls.

Then, exactly a month after Valentines Day is White Day, March 14th. This is the holiday where the boys repay the girls for their generous chocolate donations by giving them the same, usually white chocoate.

Subquential on the calendar is Vernal Equinox, March 21st, the holiday admiratoin of nature and the love of living things, as well as the Buudist way of welcoming the spring. There is much visiting and cleaning up ancestor's tomb stones, as well as leaving flowers.

Black Day, April 14, is an informal tradition for single people to eat noodles with black bean sauce together. It's meant for all of the people who didn't get anything on White or Valentine's Day to get together and eat jjajangmyeon, the noodles I described before, to commemerate the singleness.

There are a few holidays in Golden Week. They are Greenery day, April 29th, which started out as a celebration for a past emporer's birthday, Constitution Memorial Day, May 3rd, the celebration of the date that Japan's postwar Constitution became activated, Between Day, May 4th, the holiday with no meaning other than to bridge the two holidays of Constitution Memorial Day and Boys' Festival together, and Boys' day, May 5th, the day where families fly koi streamers to recognise the presence of a boy in the house, if there is one, of course.

Tanabata, July 7th, is the Star Celebration. It involves the sad story of a love between a cowherd, Hikoboshi, and a weaver princess, Orihime. I'll tell you the story in a later chapter

These are all the holidays I plan to do. I decided to give you the info before anything else. So, please, read on.