(I'm not sure if these are the traditions at Japan but I'm hoping that these would help you :) ).
I'm just going to use the English language, okay? Arigatou Gozaimasu!
Hatsumoude
⇒ First visit to a temple for the year.
Joya No Kane
⇒ Ringing of a temple bell 108 times.
*108 times because these symbolize the 108 sins of buddha).
Omikuji
⇒ Papers where one's fortune is written.
⇒ Tied in Bamboo posts in Shinto Shrines.
Osechi Ryouri
⇒ Food served for the new year that give thanks for the previous year and to wish for prosperity this coming year.
Otoshidama
⇒ A way in which Japanese people give envelopes with money to the children.
Christmas in Japan
⇒ Unlike Filipinos, Japanese spend their Christmas with their lovers.
⇒ They eat at KFC.
*KFC - Kentucky For Christmas
⇒ A ''single awareness day'' for singles
⇒ They eat sponge cake (Strawberry Sponge Cake with white frosting).
⇒ Lovers are pressured in giving the most expensive thing for their love ones.
Hanami (flower viewing)
⇒ They use blue mats.
⇒ They eat and talk under the sakura or cherry blossom.
⇒ D-u-m-p-l-i-n-g-s over flowers
⇒ A mini picnic around the sakura
