Meanings

very auspicious day

Official Business Skill Test in Bookkeeping (JCCI bookkeeping proficiency test)

midsummer day of the ox (traditionally marked by eating eel)

Closed Today

today's best

Japan-US Treaty of Peace and Amity (March 31, 1854)

Disaster Response Volunteers Day (January 17)

tan line

day of admission (at a training institute, etc.)

Edo period to early Meiji non-working day falling on all days of the month with a 1 or a 6 in it (when written in kanji numerals, i.e. the 1st, 11th, 16th, 21st and 26th days of the month)

Nihon-shiki romanization (of Japanese)

solar print

day one goes to work (as opposed to a holiday, working from home, etc.)

Japanese corporation

(Imperial) Japanese Army

Japan Post

Japanese pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)

day that something (e.g. a venue) is available to use

very auspicious day

children's game of throwing a shoe up in the air and seeing how it falls to predict whether it will rain or not the following day