Seijin no hi
 

Today was Seijin no hi. Congratulations!

Not that I endorse romaji, the word is Seijin. I'm sure you know what "jin" means.

What you wrote means "The Politics Day", which doesn't exist. In any case, I do wish I were 20. :)

Sorry mate, I just heard it in passing today and that's what I thought I'd heard. (fixed in my post). I don't like romaji either but I don't know how to write that with kanji (and it let's people here read it). The kimonos were so beautiful for the girls though. I didn't really see too many guys dressed up.

Had you been here 20 years ago during the Bubble Period, you would have seen a lot of the guys in Armani and Gucci suits attending the ceremony. Even back then, though, it was always the girls in colorful kimono that stole the scene.

On a random note, I was just reading the website of my own ward Shinjuku and noticed something interesting. Of the 3,162 "new adults" that attended the ward ceremony today, 645 were non-Japanese residents. That is 20% of the group and I think it's indicative of where Japan as a country is headed in the way of ethnic demography in our own time.