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National Foundation Day 2023

Japan · Saturday, February 11, 2023 · FM11, Q4 of FY2022

Sat
Weekday 2023
FM11
Fiscal Month
Q4
Fiscal Quarter
48d
To FY2022 Year-End
Country
Japan
Calendar date 2023
2023-02-11 (Saturday)
Observed date 2023
2023-02-13 (Monday) — Monday after (Commonwealth bank-holiday convention)
Fiscal year
FY2022 (see country page)
Fiscal month / quarter
FM11 of 12 · Quarter Q4 · printable monthly template
Source
Cabinet Office, Japan

About National Foundation Day

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

This page is the 2023-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 National Foundation Day page.

2023 weekday and observance

In 2023, National Foundation Day falls on Saturday, February 11. Falling on a Saturday, the official observance shifts under most national rules. Federal banking holidays observed on Saturday typically move to the preceding Friday in the United States and Canada, or the following Monday in the United Kingdom and most Commonwealth countries.

Weekend observance: Because 2023's date lands on a Saturday, the official observance shifts to Monday, February 13. Monday after (Commonwealth bank-holiday convention). Federal pay schedules, government services, and most regulated banking activity follow the observed date rather than the calendar date for the purposes of business-day counting and value-date accrual.

Where it lands in FY2022

For organisations on the Japan fiscal calendar, National Foundation Day 2023 sits in fiscal month 11 (FM11), inside quarter Q4 of FY2022. From this date, you have approximately 48 days remaining until fiscal year-end on March 31, 2023. 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: National Foundation Day 2024 · National Foundation Day 2025

Operational impact for finance teams

For finance and operations teams, National Foundation Day 2023 reduces the working-day count for FM11 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 2023 pay period schedule for the pay period containing this date — the payday for that period may shift to the preceding business day.

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