We Japanese will get about a week off around the end of April and beginning of May. This is because there is a cluster of national holidays during this time. The "Golden week" starts on April 29. The term "Golden Week" was first used by movie companies in order to get people to take advantage of the "golden" opportunity to go see a film. The term gradually began being used by other people to refer to this string of holidays. Many companies close down for a week, or even 10 days, because it's inefficient to keep shutting them down and starting them back up when holidays and weekends are clustered together. Although offices tend to be open on days that are not holidays, we use our paid vacations to take an extended break from the daily routine. "Golden Week" comes at a very pleasant time of the year here in Japan; temperatures are neither too cold nor too hot. Many people thus travel to resort areas. In recent years, increasing numbers have been traveling to foreign destinations with families, and it goes without saying that it is a good season for the wrestling business. View From The Rising Sun (#70) will be a guide for pro wrestling during "Golden Week" in Japan.
Greenery Day is celebrated on April 29 and marks the start of "Golden Week." This is a day that has been set aside for nature appreciation. Until 1988, April 29 was celebrated as the birthday of the Emperor. It was decided to keep this day a holiday even after his passing away in January 1989, and to name it Greenery Day because of the late Emperor's love of nature.
New Japan Pro 3:00 Nagasaki Prefectural Gym
FMW 2:00 ActCity Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
Michinoku Pro 3:00 Niigata Phase, Niigata
SPWF 6:30 Kawamoto-cho Training Center, Saitama
Big Japan Pro 3:00 Teisen Hall, Sapporo, Hokkaido
Osaka Pro 1:00 Izumi City Gym, Osaka
All Japan Women Pro 6:30 SATY Ohi-machi, Saitama
GAEA 6:30 IMP Hall, Osaka
Jd' 12:30 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
ARSION 3:00 Ise Sun Arena, Mie
***Masahito Kakihara's birthday (28)
Big Japan Pro will have the "World Extreme Cup" Death Matches Tournament from April 24 to May 14. Abdullah the Butcher, Mike Samples, Crazy Sheik (Rico Suave), Mustafa Saed, Harley Lewis, Tower of Doom, Terry Bull, and Billy Simmons, as well as Zandig & Wifebeater of Combat Zone Wrestling, will appear on this tour.
New Japan Pro 6:00 Beppu Beacon Plaza, Oita
FMW 3:00 Ishikawa Prefectural Industrial Hall, Kanazawa
Michinoku Pro 3:00 Hobara Town Gym, Fukushima
Pancrase 4:30 Yokohama Bunka Gym, Kanagawa
Big Japan Pro 3:00 Teisen Hall, Sapporo, Hokkaido---Fluorescent Lamp Death Match: Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs. Jun Kasai
Osaka Pro 5:00 Australia Memorial Hall, Yokkaichi, Mie
LLPW 6:00 Kaikyo Messe Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi
Jessica "Bionic J" Soto was trained by Al Snow and D-Lo Brown at Bodyslammer's Pro Wrestling Gym in Lima, Ohio. She lives in Tokyo and wrestles for ARSION now. She is teaming with Mima Shimoda, Etsuko Mita, Michiko Ohmukai, and Yumi Fukawa as a unit named "V.I.P." She loves Japanese style wrestling and living in Tokyo. She said, "We have a great time following our dreams together."
FMW 6:30 Aster Plaza, Hiroshima
Michinoku Pro 6:30 Onose Gym, Kitakata, Fukushima
Big Japan Pro 6:30 Hakodate City Gym, Hokkaido
DDT 6:30 Kitazawa Town Hall, Tokyo
Osaka Pro 7:00 Club OZON Nagoya, Aichi
DSE 5:00 Tokyo Dome---PRIDE Grand Prix 2000 Final
All Japan Women Pro 6:30 Kawaguchi Auto Race Track, Saitama
LLPW 7:30 Ota Ward Plaza, Tokyo
FMW will have a big show named "FMW Back Draft 2000" as the climax of the former half of 2000 at Komazawa Park Gym in Tokyo on May 5. They have run a great feud between FMW / TNR and ECW Japan, including a triangular war of "H", Masato Tanaka, and Kodo Fuyuki until today. The feud will be settled on the show.
FMW 6:30 Kokura-kita Gym, Kita-kyushu, Fukuoka
Michinoku Pro 7:00 Yonezawa City Gym, Yamagata
Osaka Pro 1:00 Intex Osaka Fairgrounds #6 Hall-A, Nan-ko, Osaka
ARSION 6:30 Ueda Civic Gym, Nagano
Minoru Fujita of Michinoku Pro Wrestling was born in Onoda City, Yamaguchi on September 5, 1977. Fujita did amateur wrestling and swimming in high school. He joined Big Japan Pro in 1995 and debuted as a pro wrestler teaming with Yoshihiro Tajiri against Fantastic & Goku at Korakuen Hall on April 11, 1997. He left Big Japan Pro and joined Michinoku Pro in 1999. He was trained by Taka Michinoku and Yoshihiro Tajiri, and he has great motivation and future potential in the 2000s.
The Osaka International Trade Fair will be held at Intex Osaka Fairgrounds, Nan-ko, Osaka from April 29 to May 4. Osaka Pro will have shows from May 2 to 4.
Constitution Memorial Day celebrates the day the present Constitution of Japan came into effect, on this date in 1947. To commemorate this event, the date is celebrated as a national holiday. Unlike the Meiji Constitution that it replaced, the present Constitution declares that sovereignty lies with the people; the Emperor is "the symbol of the state and the unity of the people" who has no "powers related to government." It asserts that people have fundamental human rights and renounces war. It is a very democratic document, modeled on the American and British constitutions.
FMW 2:00 Hakata StarLanes, Fukuoka
Michinoku Pro 3:00 Ichinoseki Bunka Center, Iwate
Big Japan Pro 2:00 JR Akihabara Station (Showa Exit) Open Space, Tokyo---Fire Death Match: Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs. Jun Kasai
Osaka Pro 1:00 Intex Osaka Fairgrounds #6 Hall-A, Nan-ko, Osaka
SGP Port Messe Nagoya, Aichi
Capture 7:30 Ota Ward Plaza, Tokyo
Jd' 1:00 / 5:00 Kitazawa Town Hall, Tokyo
ARSION 1:00 Nagaoka City Gym, Niigata
Big Japan Pro will have a show at an open space next to JR Akihabara Station in the center of Tokyo on May 3. It is a fin-de-sie-cle event in the biggest electrical shopping street in the world, named Akihabara by "one fan's garbage, another fan's treasure" wrestlers.
Because May 4 falls between two holidays, this day, too, was designated a national holiday.
FMW 3:00 IMP Hall, Osaka
Michinoku Pro 3:00 Iwanuma Civic Gym, Miyagi
Big Japan Pro 2:00 Taira Cycle Race Track, Iwaki, Fukushima
Osaka Pro 1:00 Intex Osaka Fairgrounds #6 Hall-A, Nan-ko, Osaka
SGP Port Messe Nagoya, Aichi
Capture 7:30 Ota Ward Plaza, Tokyo
New Japan Pro will have "Wrestling Dontaku 2000" at Fukuoka Dome on May 5. Tatsumi Fujinami will start the "Epilogue of Dragon" series as his final countdown to his retirement. The Hakata Dontaku is the colorful festival that takes place on May 3 and 4 in Fukuoka City in northern Kyushu. People dress up as the three gods of good fortune and parade to musical accompaniment. The "gods" are followed by young children, who dance to a special chant. About two million people from all over the country descend on Fukuoka for the festival, which coincides with "Golden Week." It is one of the most popular destinations for vacationers during the holidays in western Japan. The name of the festival was adopted around this time: it is believed to be derived from the Dutch word zondag (Sunday), which was taken to mean "holiday."
Children's Day is set aside to pray for the healthy growth and happiness of boys and girls. It became a national holiday in 1948, but it has been a day of celebration in Japan since ancient times. On Children's Day, families with boys fly huge, carp-shaped streamers (koinobori) outside the house and display dolls of famous warriors and other heroes inside. The carp was chosen because it symbolizes strength and success; according to a Chinese legend, a carp swam upstream to become a dragon.
New Japan Pro 3:00 Fukuoka Dome---Wrestling Dontaku 2000 "Epilogue of Dragon #1"
FMW 5:00 Komazawa Park Gym, Tokyo---FMW Backdraft 2000
Michinoku Pro 3:00 Nakayama Town Gym, Yamagata
Big Japan Pro 1:00 Shin-kawasaki, Kanagawa
Osaka Pro 5:00 Awaji-shima Labors Center, Hyogo
All Japan Women Pro 12:00 Korakuen Hall
ARSION 2:00 Yokosuka Seaside Park, Kanagawa
***Hiroshi Hase's birthday (39)
***Takashi "W*inger" Okano's birthday (27)
***Yusuke "Wally" Yamaguchi's birthday (42)
Michinoku Pro 6:30 Misawa Town Gym, Aomori
Big Japan Pro 6:30 Honjo City Gym, Saitama
All Japan Women Pro 5:00 Kawasaki City Gym, Kanagawa
Michinoku Pro 3:00 Iwate Town Gym, Iwate
Big Japan Pro 3:00 Kanazawa Industrial Hall #3, Ishikawa
Osaka Pro 3:00 Ota Ward Gym, Tokyo
ARSION 12:00 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo---Hyper Visual Fighting Tournament "ARS2000"
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