Feb. 9 is written as 2.9 which is able to pronounce as 2(fu)9(ku). Therefore today is day of fu ku .
In Japanese there are three different alphabets of writing: hiragana(ひらがな）, katakana（カタカナ）, kanji（漢字）. Both hiragana and katakana are phonetic signs, and there are 46 letters each. Kanji is pictographic character imported from China. To read a newspaper, we need to know at least 2,000 kanji characters.
If it is written in hiragana as ふく, we are not sure what it is meant. But if we write them in kanji we know the meaning. Today's case fuku is 河豚(fugu). Fugu is a blowfish or globefish or swellfish or puffer fish. The most famous place of fugu in Japan is Shimonoseki, and there fugu is pronounced as fuku like 福（fortune）. Shimonoseki Fuku Renmei (Shimonoseki Blowfish Federation) decided Feb. 9 as Day of Fuku in 1980.
Fugu is very high-grade winter food. They have poison, so only special-licensed cooks are allowed to cook. They are expensive but very delicious.
If you come to Japan in winter time, please try.
Today is also day of 服 (fuku: clothes), day of 福（fuku: fortune）, and day of 風(kaze: wind) because it blows which is 吹く(fu ku: blow) in Japanese.
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