January 16 is known as yabuiri (薮入り), apprentices' holiday. There were only two days off in a year for those who worked at the merchant family living with them as an apprentice in the Edo era. They were January 16 and July 16.
It was the first day of the center shiken(センター試験), National Center Test for University Admissions today. There were exams of social studies, Japanese, and foreign languages today and will be science and math tomorrow.
553,368 students applied and 513,267 (92.8%) took the exam of English.
Good luck!
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