{"id":2174,"date":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","slug":"the-japanese-custom-of-giving-flowers-to-newly-opened-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/the-japanese-custom-of-giving-flowers-to-newly-opened-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Japanese custom of giving flowers to newly opened businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"post\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<\/div>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">It&#8217;s a tradition in Japan that when a company opens, or moves to a new office, the companies they work closely with will send flower bouquets or potted plants as a congratulation present. The closer the connection, the bigger the bouquet. Sometimes this can mean new businesses end up looking like a flower shop, for example this French bakery:<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20150602-lesanneesfolles_shop.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Bakery with flower bouquets\" title=\"Bakery with flower bouquets\"><\/p>\n<p>When our Fukuoka Japanese school moved into its new building last month, some of the companies we work with, as well as our host families and other people, were kind enough to send us some beautiful flowers and plants, which helped to create a lovely image for the new school, to greet new students on the first day of classes.<\/p>\n<p>Here, for example, are the flowers we received from Homestay In Japan, who have helped us with our homestay placements in Tokyo since we opened our Tokyo Japanese school two years ago, as well as those from Revibe, who help arrange events for our students, and RMG, who arrange apartments.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20150602-img_4261__custom_.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Flowers at Genki Japanese School\" title=\"Flowers at Genki Japanese School\"><\/p>\n<p>And an amazing set of white orchids, \u80e1\u8776\u862d (kochouran):<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20150602-p1010460_tom_.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"799\" alt=\"White orchids at Genki Japanese School\" title=\"White orchids at Genki Japanese School\"><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who gave us such beautiful flowers! We look forward to the next 10 years and more in our new building.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20150602-p1010459__custom_.jpg\" width=\"799\" height=\"600\" alt=\"More flowers\" title=\"More flowers\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| It&#8217;s a tradition in Japan that when a company opens, or moves to a new office, the companies they work closely with will send flower bouquets or potted plants as a congratulation present. The closer the connection, the bigger the bouquet. 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