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Mickelicious
As an obedient taxpayer, I defer the answer to the experts at UNESCO's Japan team.
BertieWooster
"Tradere" is a Latin verb meaning "hand over." So it should be at least one generation, surely, for a father to hand over the practice to his son.
Haaa Nemui
I thought this was them asking for advice.
But really... it doesn't actually need to be very long. For instance, US presidents voluntarily releasing tax returns has only been happening since the '70s, yet that is now considered a tradition. It's not really something that there is a definitive answer to. Once an activity is accepted as the norm, it is tradition. It could be a year or a generation.
kohakuebisu
I don't know the answer, but it is a very good question. The word is very value-laden. I think Wiki's explanation is quite good.
As a parallel, an "antique" was traditionally something at least 100 years old, but we increasingly see that word being using very loosely, especially by people trying to make the old thing they are selling sound better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antique
Just for music, I would say blues or jazz could be referred to as "traditional", rock'n'roll (1950s) is borderline, and pop (mostly 1960s onwards) is still too young. That would roughly agree with the "three generations" in the Wiki explanation above.
Do the hustle
This question is quite subjective. We have a family tradition of a game of cricket on Boxing Day. It’s been our tradition for 40 odd years.