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Apr 01 2025

Time

All Day

April Fools Day in Japan エイプリルフール 

You Fool!!

It isn’t really clear when April Fools Day in Japan started but the tradition of practical jokes, especially obviously joke newspaper stories appearing on that day has been going on since the 1960’s.

References

In English
https://kotaku.com/when-japan-gets-april-fools-day-so-right-1694970543
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/tag/april-fools-day/
In Japanese
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/エイプリルフール
https://gigazine.net/news/20190401-aprilfool/

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