This year, the festival is taking place on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024 from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Lind Hall in the False Creek Community Centre. The winter solstice in Japan, called Toji, has a few ...

The exact moment of the winter solstice varies from year to year due to a slight misalignment between the Gregorian calendar and the actual rate of the Earth’s rotation around the sun.

It has been sung for generations probably because it portrays an imagined scenery of Japan ... to see the harsh winter coming to an end. The process begins on the winter solstice, and spring ...