Celebrating Japanese Girls' Day

On Monday, the wife of the Japanese ambassador to Jamaica, Sayoko Takase, hosted a doll ceremony in celebration of the traditional Japanese Girls Day which is celebrated on March 3. This marks a young girls' coming of age and wishing girls' healthy growth and happiness.

The traditional meal of chirashizushi - a sugar-flavoured sushi rice vinegar with raw fish on top, served with a variety of other ingredients, and sakura-mochi, a pink, sweet rice cake consisting of red bean paste covered with a leaf of sakura (cherry blossom) is served. The colours in the dishes signify important aspects of the ceremony, as well as to represent the coming of spring.