Japan prepares Christmas a little differently than the other world.

If there is something solid between all States, for example, it is, in fact, that none of the 2 States do not celebrate Christmas identical. Understand Japan, a country half a world away from here where everything is relatively unusual, and in fact that here in the West.

Let's start with this, in fact that Christmas is not considered an official holiday, as here. Shops and businesses are still open on December 25, but secondary schools are usually closed for Christmas holidays. This interval, as a rule, comes on December 23, which is considered a public holiday, in order to celebrate the birthday of the ruler Akihito. This holiday will change when Prince Naruhito ascends the throne, for example as his birthday on February 23.

While Christmas contains a specific religious connotation in the USA (with more or less Christian symbolism, depending on where you live), Christmas is significantly divorced from the religious overtones in the land of the rising sun. And while Christmas in the USA is now often seen as a consumer, when Santa gives presents to good boys and girls, in the land of the rising sun, it takes a completely different context.

Christmas is actually the biggest holiday of love in the land of the rising sun, which is including more than a day of Immaculate Valentine.

If you are a young couple In the land of the rising sun, you just eat or go to a rendezvous on the eve of Christmas. Any restaurant in the country is full of couples, and if you do not face a special other, you will definitely complain about it in public networks.

Christmas, on the other hand, is still a day for buddies and family, with one specific Japanese quirk: everyone orders KFC.

Instead of this, in order to cook a giant Turkey or ham with all the finishing, families in the land of the rising sun bought a huge bucket of KFC. It's the biggest day in KFC with pass opening 3.6 million Japanese families to order KFC for Christmas.

The root cause of this custom of fried chicken is somewhat unnatural, but also somewhat like Santa Claus became the mascot of Western Christmas. In 1974, KFC Japan launched a marketing campaign that was so successful, in fact, that the whole state now considers it a sacred custom to distribute a bucket of fried chicken with his own family for Christmas.

And when you think about this, does it not sound a little presentable, so elementary order in KFC, and not spend the whole day, making a stuffed Turkey?