{"id":2539,"date":"2017-01-31T22:57:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T06:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2022-07-21T13:09:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T20:09:02","slug":"american-holidays-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/american-holidays-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"American Holidays in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/main-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/main-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">With <b>Valentine\u2019s Day<\/b> coming soon, it always makes me wish I were living in Japan again, where the guys don\u2019t have to worry about what romantic thing we need to do for our significant others\u2014because the girls make the first move on Valentine&#8217;s Day. In Japan, the girls buy the chocolate for the men. And we don\u2019t have to reciprocate until a month later on \u201cWhite Day\u201d. Confused? Don\u2019t be\u2014it\u2019s actually kind of\u2026uh, sweet. Valentine\u2019s Day gives the girls a chance to show their crushes how they really feel, when they may normally be too embarrassed to do so. In addition to buying chocolate for their true loves, however, the girls are unfortunately on the hook for buying for their bosses or colleagues\u2014the \u201cobligation chocolate\u201d. And the obligation-giving continues on March 14th for the men, when they\u2019re expected to repay the Valentine\u2019s Day gifts with chocolate gifts of their own, on White Day. Oh, those evil candy manufacturers, who started this ingenious holiday! Even though &#8220;White Day&#8221; is strictly a commercial money maker, I love the Japanese Valentine&#8217;s Day tradition of the girls taking the initiative!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/whiteday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/whiteday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Japanese <i>love<\/i> to adopt our national holidays\u2014they\u2019re not always celebrated in the same way, but they do a pretty good job. And it\u2019s always in good fun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>What\u2019s Christmas like in Japan?<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There\u2019s no way Christmas would have the same religious significance in Japan the way it does here. It\u2019s estimated only 1% of the population is actually Christian. But Christmas is a joyous time, and Japanese people love gift giving, so it seems pretty natural. The main symbolic gesture has always been the traditional \u201cChristmas Cake\u201d, usually topped with all the decorations, like plastic Santas, trees, reindeer and ornaments. And happily, that rude association with unmarried women being past their expiration date (25, as in December 25) and being called &#8220;Christmas Cakes&#8221;, is no longer taken seriously. Especially when more women are in the workforce and the marrying age is probably closer to 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Xmas-cake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Xmas-cake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Another phenomenon is the KFC\u00ae Christmas, a brilliant marketing angle invented years ago by a Japanese executive at Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan. He simply started promoting his chicken in Christmas themed barrels, getting his inspiration from the traditional holiday turkey dinners in the U.S. The idea that \u201cChristmas is for Kentucky\u201d caught on, and now standing in long lines to pick up KFC\u00ae has become synonymous with the season. Who woulda thought it? The Colonel is the most famous personality during Christmastime. And well deserved, that Japanese executive eventually became the CEO of KFC\u00ae Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/KFC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2537\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/KFC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Halloween is picking up steam<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Indeed, this very American holiday becomes bigger every year in Japan, and much like its popularity as an adult holiday here, Halloween in Japan is an excuse to dress up and be someone else. It makes sense that it would catch on in Japan, where cosplay first started. So when they start making costumes, they go all out. It also helps when all the major theme parks like Tokyo Disneyland and Universal Studios Japan get on the bandwagon and start to feature the holiday in a big way. It used to be a scattering of American ex-pats dressing up and going to bars and nightclubs to be gawked at by curious onlookers\u2014but no more; the dressing up part has been completely adopted by Japanese pop culture. The only thing missing is trick or treat\u2014that part of the tradition doesn\u2019t look like it\u2019s going to assimilated anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/costumes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/costumes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And what would Halloween be without controversy? Apparently at Universal Studios Japan last year, their new attraction, called &#8220;Tatari: Curse of the Living Doll&#8221;, drew letters of protest from the Japanese Doll Association, for using dolls that were donated to the park by a shrine. The association wasn&#8217;t keen on how the dolls were being represented as objects of terror, even though it was in the spirit of Halloween. Guess what? Dolls are creepy enough sometimes. These little ones are pretty scary with the right makeup!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/dolls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/dolls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Japan has pretty much made these holidays their own. Americans might say they&#8217;re copycats, and they certainly started that way, but after all these years the celebrations have evolved into something distinctly Japanese.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Images: <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/mete-g.tumblr.com\/post\/110933577640\/hello-in-japan-its-already-the-valentines-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Valentine art<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/allabout-japan.com\/en\/article\/1093\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christmas cake<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/living\/2131180\/heres-the-crazy-reason-kfc-is-the-traditional-christmas-dinner-in-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KFC<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.japan-talk.com\/jt\/new\/japanese-holidays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Halloween costumes<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rocketnews24.com\/2016\/10\/20\/universal-studios-japan-receives-letter-of-protest-over-haunted-house-using-shinto-shrines-dolls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tatari doll<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Valentine\u2019s Day coming soon, it always makes me wish I were living in Japan again, where the guys don\u2019t have to worry about what romantic thing we need to do for our significant others\u2014because the girls make the first move on Valentine&#8217;s Day. 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