{"id":2215,"date":"2015-12-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-12-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T00:00:00","slug":"year-end-party-or-%E5%BF%98%E5%B9%B4%E4%BC%9A-bounenkai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.mom\/blog\/year-end-party-or-%E5%BF%98%E5%B9%B4%E4%BC%9A-bounenkai\/","title":{"rendered":"Year-End Party, or \u5fd8\u5e74\u4f1a (bounenkai)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"post\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<\/div>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20151223-img_4582__custom_.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"368\" alt=\"End of year party photo\" title=\"End of year party photo\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the time of the year for Japanese companies to have their year-end parties, or \u5fd8\u5e74\u4f1a (bounenkai). The kanji for this literally mean &#8220;forget year meeting&#8221;, and in theory that&#8217;s part of what people are supposed to be doing &#8211; forgetting all the bad things that happened that year, so we&#8217;re ready to approach the new year with new energy. But in practise it&#8217;s usually just an excuse for a big party.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20151223-img_4568__custom_.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"368\" alt=\"End year party at Genki Japanese\" title=\"End year party at Genki Japanese\"><\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what we did! Yesterday, December 22nd, GenkiJACS&#8217; Fukuoka Japanese school had our bounenkai at a nearby restaurant. About 70 people attended, and we put on a whole program of entertainment, from karaoke to cosplay to quizzes and more!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20151223-img_4569__custom_.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"368\" alt=\"Genki Japanese School party\" title=\"Genki Japanese School party\"><\/p>\n<p>We hope we&#8217;ll see you at our year-end party in 2016!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| It&#8217;s the time of the year for Japanese companies to have their year-end parties, or \u5fd8\u5e74\u4f1a (bounenkai). 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