Labour Thanksgiving Day 2025
Japan · Sunday, November 23, 2025 · FM8, Q3 of FY2025
- Country
- Japan
- Calendar date 2025
- 2025-11-23 (Sunday)
- Observed date 2025
- 2025-11-24 (Monday) — Monday after (Commonwealth bank-holiday convention)
- Fiscal year
- FY2025 (open year)
- Fiscal month / quarter
- FM8 of 12 · Quarter Q3 · printable monthly template
- Source
- Cabinet Office, Japan
About Labour Thanksgiving Day
Kinro Kansha no Hi, national holiday celebrating labour and production.
This page is the 2025-specific edition: it shows the actual weekday, the observed date if a weekend rule applies, and the placement of the holiday inside the Japan fiscal year that contains it. For the canonical, year-agnostic overview see the main Labour Thanksgiving Day page.
2025 weekday and observance
In 2025, Labour Thanksgiving Day falls on Sunday, November 23. Falling on a Sunday, the official observance shifts to a weekday under most national rules. Pay date for any payroll run whose payday lands on this date moves to the preceding business day.
Where it lands in FY2025
For organisations on the Japan fiscal calendar, Labour Thanksgiving Day 2025 sits in fiscal month 8 (FM8), inside quarter Q3 of FY2025. From this date, you have approximately 128 days remaining until fiscal year-end on March 31, 2026. That distance matters because year-end close planning typically begins 60 to 90 days out — meaning if FYE is within that window, this holiday already sits inside the close-planning runway and any client-facing or vendor-facing deadlines that touch it should be pre-cleared rather than rescheduled later.
For the same holiday in adjacent fiscal years see: Labour Thanksgiving Day 2023 · Labour Thanksgiving Day 2024 · Labour Thanksgiving Day 2026 · Labour Thanksgiving Day 2027
Operational impact for finance teams
For finance and operations teams, Labour Thanksgiving Day 2025 reduces the working-day count for FM8 by one. If the holiday falls within two business days of a fiscal month-end, expect downstream impact on accrual timing (revenue cutoff, inventory counts, AP cutoffs) and on banking value dates. Wire transfers and ACH/Faster Payments typically settle the next business day; international wires may slip two days when both origin and destination observe the holiday. See our guide on mapping holidays to fiscal months for a worked example of folding observance dates into the close calendar.
If your business operates payroll on a biweekly cadence aligned to the OPM federal schedule, check the 2025 pay period schedule for the pay period containing this date — the payday for that period may shift to the preceding business day.
Cross-references
- Printable November template (FM8) — see this holiday highlighted in the calendar grid.
- Q3 quarterly template — context inside the three-month fiscal quarter.
- FY2025 overview for Japan — full year-at-a-glance.
- Main Labour Thanksgiving Day page — year-agnostic background.