How many working days in year 1999?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1999 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 14 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 247 working days in 1999.
Here is the list of these 14 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Friday, 1 January, 1999
2. Coming of Age Day : Monday, 11 January, 1999
3. Foundation Day : Thursday, 11 February, 1999
4. Shōwa Day : Thursday, 29 April, 1999
5. Constitution Memorial Day : Monday, 3 May, 1999
6. Greenery Day : Tuesday, 4 May, 1999
7. Children's Day : Wednesday, 5 May, 1999
8. Marine Day : Monday, 19 July, 1999
9. Respect-for-Aged Day : Monday, 20 September, 1999
10. Autumnal Equinox Day : Thursday, 23 September, 1999
11. Health and Sports Day : Monday, 11 October, 1999
12. Culture Day : Wednesday, 3 November, 1999
13. Labor Thanksgiving Day : Tuesday, 23 November, 1999
14. Emperor's Birthday : Thursday, 23 December, 1999
And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:
1. Vernal Equinox Day : Saturday, 20 March, 1999