January 15 was used to be a national holiday called seijin no hi (成人の日), Coming-of-Age day. But since 2000 it has been moved to the second Monday of January. Therefore today was just a Friday.
January 15 is known as koshogatsu (小正月), literally small new year. And there was a custom to eat adzuki porridge (小豆粥： adzuki gayu) wishing rich harvest of the year.
Between January 1 and 7 is called oshogatsu (大正月), literally big new year.
On koshogatsu there are events called sagicho (左義長) or donto yaki (どんと焼), a fire festival to burn the decorations of the new year and eat the dumpling burnt by the fire there.
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