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How many working days in year 1997?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1997 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 13 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 248 working days in 1997.

Here is the list of these 13 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Wednesday, 1 January, 1997
2. Coming of Age Day : Monday, 13 January, 1997
3. Foundation Day : Tuesday, 11 February, 1997
4. Vernal Equinox Day : Thursday, 20 March, 1997
5. Shōwa Day : Tuesday, 29 April, 1997
6. Children's Day : Monday, 5 May, 1997
7. Marine Day : Monday, 21 July, 1997
8. Respect-for-Aged Day : Monday, 15 September, 1997
9. Autumnal Equinox Day : Tuesday, 23 September, 1997
10. Health and Sports Day : Monday, 13 October, 1997
11. Culture Day : Monday, 3 November, 1997
12. Labor Thanksgiving Day (observance) : Monday, 24 November, 1997
13. Emperor's Birthday : Tuesday, 23 December, 1997

And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Constitution Memorial Day : Saturday, 3 May, 1997
2. Greenery Day : Sunday, 4 May, 1997
3. Labor Thanksgiving Day : Sunday, 23 November, 1997