National Foundation Day

Japan · February 11 · Fiscal month FM11 · Quarter Q4

Country

Japan

Date

February 11

Falls in fiscal month

FM11 of Japan fiscal year

Falls in fiscal quarter

Q4

Source

Cabinet Office, Japan

About National Foundation Day

Kenkoku Kinen no Hi, commemorating the legendary founding of Japan.

Where it lands in your fiscal year

For organisations operating on the Japan fiscal calendar, National Foundation Day falls in fiscal month 11 (FM11), inside quarter Q4. Treat the date as a non-working day in payroll calendars, exclude it from business-day counts when scheduling close milestones or accrual postings, and check vendor terms for any "next business day" payment clauses that would shift settlement.

If the holiday falls on a weekend, observance rules vary: the United States federal government observes the nearest preceding Friday or following Monday; the United Kingdom typically grants a substitute weekday. Check the country's official observance rules before locking payroll runs.

Operational impact for finance teams

For finance and operations teams, National Foundation Day reduces the working-day count for FM11 by one. If the holiday falls within two business days of a month-end, expect downstream impact on accruals (revenue cutoff, inventory counts, AP cutoffs) and on banking value dates. Wire transfers and ACH/Faster Payments usually settle the next business day; international wires may slip two days when origin and destination both observe the holiday. See our guide on mapping holidays to fiscal months for a worked example of how to fold observance dates into the close calendar.

Open the calendar

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Year-by-year observance

Pick a specific year to see the actual weekday, weekend-observance shift (if any), and where the holiday lands inside that year's fiscal quarter:

Other holidays in Japan

• January 1 — New Year's Day
• April 29 — Showa Day
• May 3 — Constitution Memorial Day
• May 5 — Children's Day
• November 23 — Labour Thanksgiving Day