Mid-Autumn Festival has different names in Japanese, such as' Fifteen Nights',' Mid-Autumn Festival',' Mid-Autumn Moon' and' Impression Moon'. Among them,' Fifteen Nights' ("Looking at the Moon at Fifteen Nights" by Wang Jianyou in Tang Dynasty) and' Mid-Autumn Moon' are the most common. The custom of celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival was introduced as early as the Tang Dynasty, and it was first popular among the imperial nobles (the Mid-Autumn Festival was bound to hold a grand gathering of poetry and music), and later even the people followed it. The famous story of bamboo is set in the Mid-Autumn Festival. However, in history, Japanese people paid less attention to Mid-Autumn Festival than China people. After the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese government abolished the Lunar New Year, and the Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals from China also declined. Nowadays, Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival that is not paid much attention to in Japan. Unlike Hong Kong, it's not a public holiday. Many city people and young people don't know what Mid-Autumn Festival is.

Japanese Mid-Autumn Festival also has the custom of enjoying the moon, and some temples and shrines will hold special parties to enjoy the moon, which was handed down from China in Heian period more than 1000 years ago. /kloc-After it was introduced to Japan more than 0/000 years ago, the local custom of holding a banquet while enjoying the moon began to appear, which was called "Moon Watching Banquet". Because this period is the harvest season of various crops, in order to express gratitude to nature, the Japanese will hold various celebrations. Although Japan abolished the lunar calendar and changed to the solar calendar after the Meiji Restoration, the custom of enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival is still maintained in all parts of Japan, and some temples and shrines will hold special parties to enjoy the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival.