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Contents 1 Plagiarism 2 How 20 is 20 3 Podcast 4 Addition Information

[edit] Plagiarism

Someone decided to lift this article in its entireity from [1] without any citation whatsoever. Thus, the article needs to be completely rewritten.

[edit] How 20 is 20

I am unsure on the factual accuracy of the page this page was previously 'plagarised' and have come upon conflicted internet resources on the matter.

Is this ceremony really for people who will turn 20 in the coming year? I am really doubting that. The drinking age in Japan is 20, that means unless your birthday falls in the first 2 weeks of January, you are not allowed to drink. I know that japan may not be exactly strong on enforcing legal ages, but that would be ridiculous to ahve a Nationally Sponsored festivity day that encourages underage drinking. -- to lazy to log in

Yes, all people who turn 20 in 2006 will have their ceremony on Monday. Neier 07:43, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

I need to remember to be more specific when asking my friends about things. I found out tonight that the "all year" is the one which matches the school (and most fiscal) years -- from April to March. So, anyone born between April 1, 1985 – March 31, 1986 will have their ceremony on January 9, 2006. The underage drinking problem of ZayZayEm's message still exists, but only for about 1/4 of the group -- which is better than 51/52.  :-) Neier 12:11, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

I have to check my sources on this, but it used to be that people didn't celebrate their individual birthdays in Japan; your age was based on the year in which you were born and not necessarily the specific day. That being the case, Coming of Age day was a way to celebrate everyone becoming adults in their 20th year and, technically, that meant that you were (possibly) considered 20 and could drink legally. I do believe, however, that people do celebrate birthdays in Japan currently so I'm not sure if my theory still stands that you are considered 20 if that is your celebratory year. I would have to look this all up later because I'm at work, so I may have muddled ZayZayEM's question moreso than if it had been left alone. SailorAlphaCentauri 16:13, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Podcast

Sorry, must have done the wrong link. Episode 7] really is about seijin shiki. I put it here for your perusal. Jeshii 03:34, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Addition Information

http://ricci.bidan.de/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=329

Basically popular idols from Johnn'y Entertainment have their own Seijin Shiki, which has a lot of press coverage, and is in the newspapers, and daily shows like Zoom In and Mezameishi (I think that's how you spell it).