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Showa Day 2024

Japan · Monday, April 29, 2024 · FM1, Q1 of FY2024

Mon
Weekday 2024
FM1
Fiscal Month
Q1
Fiscal Quarter
336d
To FY2024 Year-End
Country
Japan
Calendar date 2024
2024-04-29 (Monday)
Fiscal year
FY2024 (open year)
Fiscal month / quarter
FM1 of 12 · Quarter Q1 · printable monthly template
Source
Cabinet Office, Japan

About Showa Day

Start of Golden Week, honouring the Showa Emperor.

This page is the 2024-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 Showa Day page.

2024 weekday and observance

In 2024, Showa Day falls on Monday, April 29. Falling on a Monday, this holiday compresses the work week to four days and pushes any month-end activity that would normally close on Monday into the following day. Plan for late-Tuesday banking value dates.

No weekend-shift rule applies in 2024 because the holiday falls on a regular weekday. Both the calendar date and the observed date are Monday, April 29, 2024. Treat it as a non-working day in payroll, vendor payment scheduling, and any business-day calculation that drives accruals or settlement.

Where it lands in FY2024

For organisations on the Japan fiscal calendar, Showa Day 2024 sits in fiscal month 1 (FM1), inside quarter Q1 of FY2024. From this date, you have approximately 336 days remaining until fiscal year-end on March 31, 2025. 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: Showa Day 2023 · Showa Day 2025 · Showa Day 2026

Operational impact for finance teams

For finance and operations teams, Showa Day 2024 reduces the working-day count for FM1 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 2024 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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