Thursday, November 26, 2009

Work and Japanese Christmas food

Headed to work like usual. Christmas is a holiday which came to Japan from the west and is more for dating or partying. It's not an actual holiday here but the 23rd just before is the Emperor's birthday and is a holiday. Anyhow Christmas is pretty big date day and people often have to reserve their table at a good restaurant as much as a year in advance. There are a ton of light displays all over Tokyo and you see Christmas trees everywhere. As with the US, Christmas music plays in all stores for the whole month of December. One of the funny things is that somehow KFC has positioned themselves as the provides of the "traditional" Japanese Christmas meal of chicken. Awesome!

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