Master Japanese date expressions with our interactive quiz. Practice reading years, months, and days. Japanese dates use a Year-Month-Day order.

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Learning how to read dates is essential for understanding schedules, appointments, and historical events in Japan.

Use this quiz to practice converting dates into their Japanese readings. Many days of the month have irregular readings, so focus on those!

• • Focus on the first 10 days of the month - they are almost all irregular (tsuitachi, futsuka, mikka, etc.).
• • Remember that 4, 7, and 9 often have special readings in dates (shigatsu for April, shichigatsu for July, kugatsu for September).
• • The 20th of the month is always "hatsuka", not "nijunichi".
• • Say the full date out loud as you type to reinforce your memory.
• • Japanese eras (Gengō) are commonly used in official documents. For the first year of an era, "gannen" is used instead of "ichinen".