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Almost exactly half of the new adults in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward are foreigners

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 15, 2026
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One of the city’s most internationalized districts hits a cultural milestone on Coming of Age Day.

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• (COK • Coming of Age Day • culture • foreigners in Japan • internationalism • Seijin no Hi • seijinshiki • shinjuku • society)

New adults go wild at Seijinshiki Coming-of-Age ceremony in Kitakyushu, Japan 【Photos】

• Oona McGee
  Jan 13, 2026

This celebration throws everything you thought you knew about Japanese culture out the window. 

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• (bosozoku • coming of age • Coming of Age Ceremony • Coming of Age Day • cosplay • culture • fashion • hakama • kimono • Kitakyushu • seijinshiki • SNJO • society • Yankee • youth)

Best practices for celebrating Coming of Age Day for those turning 18, 20, or both in Japan

• Krista Rogers
  Jan 12, 2026

With the change in the legal age of adulthood in Japan, even Japanese people are confused about when and how to celebrate this milestone.

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• (adulthood • best practices • ceremony • Coming of Age Day • gifts • Seijin no Hi • seijinshiki • tips)

Japan’s wildest Seijinshiki Coming-of-Age ceremony celebrates new adults in Kitakyushu 【Photos】

• Oona McGee
  Jan 15, 2025

Crazy kimono fashion attracts big fans worldwide.

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• (bosozoku • coming of age • Coming of Age Ceremony • Coming of Age Day • cosplay • culture • fashion • hakama • kimono • Kitakyushu • seijinshiki • SNJO • society • Yankee • youth)

Kitakyushu’s Seijinshiki Coming-of-Age Ceremony: Where new adults go wild with outlandish kimono

• Oona McGee
  Jan 9, 2024

Japanese style usually errs on the conservative side, but not at this ceremony. 

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• (bosozoku • coming of age • Coming of Age Ceremony • Coming of Age Day • cosplay • culture • fashion • hakama • kimono • Kitakyushu • seijinshiki • SNJO • society • Yankee • youth)

Mt. Fuji schoolgirl photo models who charmed Japan years ago reunite to celebrate Coming of Age Day

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 11, 2023

Shizuoka road continues to be one of the most photogenic spots in all of Japan.

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• (beautiful • Coming of Age Ceremony • Coming of Age Day • kimono • moving • Mt. Fuji • nature • photography • School Uniforms • schoolgirls • Seijin no Hi • seijinshiki • Shizuoka • touching)

Say hello to Japan’s new generation of adults, fresh from Kitakyushu’s 2023 seijinshiki ceremony

• Oona McGee
  Jan 10, 2023

These new adults say sayonara to their youth with colourful hair and gangsta costumes.

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• (bosozoku • COK • coming of age • Coming of Age Ceremony • Coming of Age Day • cosplay • culture • fashion • hakama • kimono • Kitakyushu • seijinshiki • SNJO • society • Yankee • youth)

Olympic gold medalist skateboarder wears a kimono on the half-pipe【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Jan 27, 2022

Furisode means “swinging sleeves” and boy, do these sleeves swing. 

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• (beautiful • Coming of Age Day • furisode • gold medal • Instagram • Japanese women • kimono • Olympics • photos • Sakura Yosozumi • Seijin no Hi • seijinshiki • skateboarding • skateboards • sport • Tokyo 2020 Olympics)

Say hello to Japan’s new generation of adults, fresh from Kitakyushu’s seijinshiki ceremony

• Oona McGee
  Jan 10, 2022

Kimonos and gangsta flair to celebrate freedom and individuality before conforming to Japanese society. 

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• (bosozoku • COK • coming of age • Coming of Age Ceremony • Coming of Age Day • cosplay • culture • fashion • hakama • kimono • Kitakyushu • seijinshiki • SNJO • society • Yankee • youth)

We visit one of Japan’s top pompadour barbers, learn a secret about those Coming of Age Day photos

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 25, 2021

Our mild-mannered reporter gets hooked up with the king of bad-boy haircuts in Japan, the “regent.”

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• (barber shop • COK • Coming of Age Ceremony • Coming of Age Day • cool • crazy • hair • hair salons • hairdos • hairstyling • makeover • Masanuki Sunakoma • Okinawa • pompadour • Seijin no Hi • seijinshiki • SNJO)

Parents of bullied teenage girl who committed suicide commission portrait to “attend” Seijinshiki

• Dale Roll
  Jan 15, 2021

Move sparked controversy among Japanese netizens. 

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• (bullying • COK • Coming of Age Ceremony • Japanese Twitter • portrait • seijinshiki • society • suicide)

Japan’s craziest Coming of Age Day is back with Kitakyushu Seijin no Hi 2021【Photos】

• SoraNews24
  Jan 11, 2021

All of Japan has Coming of Age Ceremonies in January, but nowhere has them quite like Kitakyushu.

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• (COK • Coming of Age Ceremony • Coming of Age Day • crazy • culture • Ktakyushu • Seijin no Hi • seijinshiki • SNJO • weird)

Coming of Age Ceremonies in Tokyo changing form due to COVID-19 State of Emergency

• Dale Roll
  Jan 10, 2021

As with everything in the age of coronavirus, things are a little different this year.

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• (coming of age • Coming of Age Ceremony • Coming of Age Day • coronavirus • COVID-19 • Ghibli Museum • Mitaka • seijinshiki • Tokyo)

Yokohama’s Coming of Age Ceremony ruined by “yankees” who fight, illegally scale walls, drink

• Dale Roll
  Jan 14, 2020

But in spite of all that, Pikachu still made a guest appearance!

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• (Coming of Age Ceremony • Coming of Age Day • Seijin no Hi • seijinshiki • violence • yankees • Yokohama)

Seijinshiki 2020: Kitakyushu’s Coming of Age Ceremony dazzles in the Year of the Rat【Photos】

• Krista Rogers
  Jan 14, 2020

Kitakyushu welcomes its first Coming of Age Ceremony of the Reiwa Era in its typical outrageous fashion(s).

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• (Coming of Age Ceremony • costumes • crazy • Fukuoka Prefecture • Kitakyushu • Kyushu • photos • Reiwa • Seijin no Hi • seijinshiki)

Three-way “yankee” street brawl breaks out following Coming-of-Age Ceremony in Japan【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 18, 2019

Kimono vs. suits vs. cops.

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• (Coming of Age Ceremony • Coming of Age Day • crime • delinquents • fight • scary • Seijin no Hi • seijinshiki • video • yankees)

Seijinshiki 2019: Best wild kimono outfits from Coming of Age Day celebrations in Kitakyushu

• Oona McGee
  Jan 14, 2019

Gorgeous gangsta boys and girls pose for our camera at Japan’s most out-there ceremony. 

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• (beautiful women • Coming of Age Day • cosplay • cosplay costumes • cosplayers • fashion • Japanese women • kimono • kimonos • Kitakyushu • Kyushu • seijinshiki)

Roughly one in eight of Tokyo’s new adults is foreign-born, study shows

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 9, 2018

“The truth is that without foreigners, Japanese society cannot function,” says researcher.

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• (culture • foreigners in Japan • internaitonalism • seijin • seijinshiki • society • Tokyo)

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