- If you are visiting before the New Year in Japan, you will find many things traditionally associated with Christmas: decorations, Christmas markets, and...
- Christmas in Japan wouldn't be complete without mentioning the highly anticipated tradition of the Japanese Christmas cake.
- Christmas is not a public national holiday in Japan, so Japanese people often work during the day and then have a special dinner with their romantic partner...
- It's thought it was first sung in Japan at Christmas by German prisoners of War in World War One and over the years it became more and more popular.
- Outside of winter illumination hotspots, no other place in Japan celebrates Christmas as colorfully, or as energetically, as theme parks.
- The week before Christmas is probably one of the easiest times to find a date in Japan, as no one wants to be alone on Christmas Eve.
- One of the things people usually ask me when these dates are approaching is “Is Christmas celebrated in Japan despite being a Christian holiday?”.
- Ever since the 1970s, when a bizarre but sensical KFC chicken campaign took off in Japan around Christmas time, KFC has become as much as a tradition...
- The decorations can be seen during Christmas and Christmas Eve in Japan, in case you miss it during the emperor’s birthday.
- As Japan hasn’t got a Christian tradition, it has integrated Christmas in its own way, choosing what they like the most and ignoring the traditional meanings...
