It may not be a public holiday in Japan, but Christmas there is big business. Quirky seasonal customs take place in people's homes across the country, while city squares host elaborate Christmas ...

Christmas is the busiest time of year for KFC in Japan, as, per tradition, many families get their holiday dinner from the restaurant. The tradition started around 1974, but there are a couple ...

Christmas was, and still is, a secular holiday in Japan — a country where less than 1% of the population identifies as Christian — and in the 1970s many people didn’t have established family ...

A statue of Colonel Sanders in Santa outfit is pictured on Dec. 23, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. KFC at Christmas has become something of a tradition in Japan with some attributing its yuletide ...

If this year is your first Christmas in Japan, you might be a little surprised (or even confused) at some of the traditions you witness. Even though only about 1 percent of the Japanese population ...

The KFC tradition dates back to 1970, when the first KFC opened in Japan, a KFC Japan spokesperson told BBC in 2016. The manager of that first restaurant, Takeshi Okawara, supposedly heard a few ...

As Japan Times reported earlier this month, the average price of whole Christmas cakes in Japan this year is up 7.8%, or about $2.20, from a year earlier, reflecting surging costs of almost all ...

In Japan, Christmas dinner is all about Kentucky Fried Chicken. Every December, millions of Japanese families line up for KFC, a tradition that started with a 1970s marketing campaign called ...

Sunshine Coast baker Ayaka Fujita with her Christmas cake. (Supplied)"It's not a religious day for us … on the 25th morning, we always have presents. "Food and cakes are usually on the night of ...

Kate Springer, CNN Almost every year since she was a child, Hokkaido resident Naomi has looked forward to her family’s traditional Christmas meal: a KFC “party barrel” brimming with salad ...