Golden Week
Proper noun
Meaning
Golden Week
Any of several extended holidays celebrated in China and Japan, usually early in May.
Examples
China’s stock and bond markets, foreign exchange and commodity futures markets are closed Oct. 1-8 for the Golden Week holiday.
During the Golden Week holidays in May, people whose cars bore license plates from outside the prefecture came to the beach and played along the seashore.
The association of prefectural governors in Japan was initially expected to come up with the proposal in an emergency videoconference as the country's Golden Week holiday period started in earnest that day, a public holiday.
The scary thing is Golden Week is just weeks away.
More recently, portion of the sales from Japan Golden Week Edition cameras were donated to the Red Cross as relief to the victims of the March 2011 tsunami.
This year for Golden Week, the string of national holidays in late April and early May, we went to Osaka to visit the in-laws.