Is there a Japanese word for "Easter holidays"? I was wondering if there is a Japanese word for "Easter holidays"? While I am aware that most of Japan does not celebrate Easter, I was surprised to find a word for Easter (, fukkatsusai). My guess is that would make "Easter holidays" , fukkatsusaiyasumi, but I couldn't find any reference of that being an actual word. So: Does Japanese have a word for "Easter holidays"? I am also interested in a loan word, but even more interested if there is a "genuine" japanese word for that.

If you ask Google, is arguably the most dominant way to refer to Easter holidays, including many expat blogs and information websites like this (a guidebook compared to _Lonely Planet_ in English).

However, , would be understood without any strange feeling too, even though it might be a word most people have heard for the first time. Likewise you can say (Thanksgiving), (Nowruz) or (Lunar New Year). As also mentioned in a comment, I don't think there is a common Japanese name for Easter holidays, because such custom has not taken root in Japan.

By the way, finding Christian words translated in Japanese is not an uncommon thing. People in Meiji who studied Western knowledge naturally learned a lot about Christianity. As a result, we say or .