April fool or Happy New Year ?

April 1st does not have the same meaning as the western culture. Here it is the New Year. To be exact the new FISCAL year. Big companies also give their year end results in December~january to fit the whole world but the real decisions are made to fit April 1st. New budgets, orgnisations, employees... everything change and everybody move that day.
It is also the first day for students in their new class, school. In France we get use to start in september-october after a loooooong vacation but Japan has only 2~3 weeks of rest. The longer vacations come on August with the Obon-week.