Question

Your co-worker was talking about how, after the academic year, he is going back to Japan. His grandmother is turning 60 years old and they have a ritual that symbolizes the person's freedom from previous responsibilities and elevates the individual to a new and respected status as elder. What is the name of this ritual?

Answer 1

Answer: it is called kanreki in Japan

Step-by-step explanation:

Kanreki is like recircling your life and going back where it's started according to Japanese it's like starting afresh.

To the Japanese sixty is a magical number when this ritual is celebrated.

According to the Japanese Kan means return or cycle and Reki refers to the calender hence to them it's like rebirth or returning to being a child all over again which they refer to as a beginning of second childhood .