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Understanding Otoshidama: A Japanese New Year Tradition Otoshidama (お年玉) is a cherished Japanese custom where money gifts are given to children during the New Year period. Traditionally, adults give cash in special decorative envelopes called “pochi-bukuro” to children in their family or close social circle. The practice symbolizes good fortune and blessings for the new year. Beyond monetary gifts, the New Year season in Japan involves extensive gift exchanges among family, friends, and colleagues, making it essential to keep track of who gave what to maintain proper social reciprocity....

I’ve released my hobby project “People Diary - GoodMemory” on the Apple App Store. This is an app I created to take notes about the relationships in my life. Since I built it as an app, I’d like many people to use it, so I’ll introduce how to use it in this post. About the App People Diary - GoodMemory is an iOS app for recording and managing relationships. You can manage memories and information about important people around you - friends, family, colleagues - with cloud-based storage....