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Target to keep stores closed on Thanksgiving for good

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I'd rather have all stores closed on Thanksgiving, except perhaps pharmacies and maybe a grocery store open for 2-4 hrs in the morning so people who cannot plan ahead or forgot something important to the meal can run in and pick up forgotten items. We don't need/want stores open from 6a - 10p on huge holidays. Those people have families too and should spend as much time with them as possible.

I'm almost done Xmas shopping already. Ordered everything about 2 weeks ago and most has already arrived.

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I agree theFu. More people should have the holidays off. Especially retail employees.

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Thank heavens we have neither Target nor Thanksgiving in Japan.

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Isn't today Thanksgiving in Japan?

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100,000+ Americans in Japan celebrate Thanksgiving as we do too.

never understood thanksgiving, basically your doing the same thing anyway when Christmas comes around

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zichiNov. 23  08:46 pm JST

RegBilk

Isn't today Thanksgiving in Japan?

So you do not live in Japan? 

today is Labor Thanksgiving Day (勤労感謝の日, Kinrō Kansha no Hi).

If you look at the post immediately above my original post, you will see I am being rhetorical.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rhetorical

100,000+ Americans in Japan celebrate Thanksgiving as we do too.

Many more than 100, 000+ Americans live in Japan. The true number is closer to 150,000+.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_in_Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Forces_Japan#:~:text=%2C%20there%20are%20approximately%2050%2C000%20U.S.%20military%20personnel,Seventh%20Fleet%20is%20based%20in%20Yokosuka%2C%20Kanagawa%20Prefecture.

But those 150,000+ Americans are not celebrating Thanksgiving as you do, because the 100,000 or so attached to the US military do not have a holiday for Labor Thanksgiving Day (勤労感謝の日, Kinrō Kansha no Hi).

They celebrate Thanksgiving, the US federal holiday, this year on November 25.

https://www.officeholidays.com/holidays/usa/thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving Wars.

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zichi Today  05:10 am JST

You should learn to read the posts correctly,

I said the Americans living in Japan, which are 100,000+ which means more than 100,000 celebrate Thanksgiving which is not a National Holiday here. I did not say they celebrate Labor Thanksgiving which is a Japanese holiday.

We celebrate Thanksgiving on the 26th of this year. We do it every year with our American family.

I read very carefully, which is why I pointed out the inaccuracies in your posts.

And Thanksgiving is on the 25th.

Just because someone puts on a costume this weekend and knocks on someone's door and says trick or treat doesn't mean he is celebrating Halloween.

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Every Restaurant AND The Tokyo American Club are celebrating on the 25th. I don't know any of my American friends who roll it to the next day because of the time difference! I'vbe seen them hungover for the last 30 years on the Friday! My boss is good enough to get lunch delivered for the whole office every Thanksgiving and we don't have it the next day.

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theFuNov. 23  11:01 am JST

I'd rather have all stores closed on Thanksgiving, except perhaps pharmacies and maybe a grocery store open for 2-4 hrs in the morning so people who cannot plan ahead or forgot something important to the meal can run in and pick up forgotten items. We don't need/want stores open from 6a - 10p on huge holidays. Those people have families too and should spend as much time with them as possible.

It's a true holiday and nobody needs or wants to work that day, esp. when the Black Friday rush is coming tomorrow. Christmas season shopping time is coming up.

zichiNov. 23  08:46 pm JST

RegBilk

Isn't today Thanksgiving in Japan?

So you do not live in Japan?

today is Labor Thanksgiving Day (勤労感謝の日, Kinrō Kansha no Hi).

100,000+ Americans in Japan celebrate Thanksgiving as we do too.

'Thanksgiving' has existed in Native American cultures for thousands of years under various names. And recently in India they celebrated Diwali which is similar.

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