Japan's Boxing Day/Black Friday equivalent
If you're from one of the UK's commonwealth countries (i.e. - Canada, Australia, etc.) you've most likely heard of a notorious shopping day called Boxing Day. Boxing Day is basically the biggest shopping day in Canada and happens the day after Christmas. It's the equivalent of America's "Black Friday" which happens the Friday after Thanksgiving. Though retailers have slowly tried to introduce Black Friday in Canada as well. I asked many Japanese people if they had some kind of big shopping day once during the year, and they often said that after New Year's Day was when all of the big sales happened. So I decided to go with my friends out on January 2nd to Shinsaibashi, one of Osaka's biggest shopping hubs. We were less than thrilled to find that many of the shopping deals they had going were similar to the one's they had pre-Christmas and pre-New Year's Day. In fact, many of the smaller shops were still closed and wouldn't re-o
