Comments on In Spring it is the Dawn: Christmas in Japan

Vasilly - KFC Japan definitely makes a load...

2010-01-30T01:00:54.778+09:00

Vasilly - KFC Japan definitely makes a load of money at Christmas! It's fun to hear how Christmas is celebrated in other places, isn't it?

Les - Sorry again that you didn't get to go away as planned for the holidays. Hope you read lots of good books though. :)

Wendy - Japan has definitely made Christmas its own. I always find it interesting the things that get adopted here and others that don't. It often seems to make no sense, to me at least. ;)

Andi - I hope you had a wonderful holiday too with your family! What's even funnier (frustrating?) is that no one ever believes me when I tell them that Christmas cake isn't traditional at all!

sprite - I agree, it's fun to see how the holiday is celebrated differently in other countries.

Marg - Ditto on what I said to sprite. And thank you, to you and Kelly, for organizing the Virtual Advent Tour!

Kathrin - I'm not surprised that the supposedly "German" cake isn't German at all. LOL. :)

Thanks Janet! I hope you were able to spend a happy holiday season yourself.

Jenny Girl - Thanks! I hope 2010 is a great year for you too!

Oops! For some reason I thought I'd already r...

2010-01-30T00:40:19.248+09:00

Oops! For some reason I thought I'd already replied to comments on this post. Sorry! Better late than never?
Anyway, thank you everyone for your kind comments and holiday wishes. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and that the new year has started out well for you.

Pam - I don't think I commented on your vlog but I enjoyed hearing about Sinterklaas. It's fun to hear about how different cultures celebrate.

Lena - To be honest, it was a bit too sweet for my taste but H loved it!

Thanks celi.a!

Mark David - Yes there are quite a few more single holidays scattered throughout the year here in Japan. The nature-related ones always amuse me since we have nothing like them in Canada. Like Marine Day, or Greenery Day, or the fact that the Autumn Equinox is a national holiday. There are never any long holidays though which is too bad. The most people usually have off at a time is a week or occasionally up to 10 days counting the weekends. It's still a nation of work-a-holics!

Thanks Diane!

Ash - LOL. I wouldn't mind pizza for Christmas, as long as I could still have turkey too. ;)

lilly - In recent years it does get quite festive with the lights and decorations, and it's fun to have our own traditions.

Velvet - Yeah, I saw lots of blue lights this year. And thank you so much for the award!! :)

Iliana - Well I guess whoever was in charge of marketing for KFC certainly did their job right! ;)

This was so interesting. I really enjoy reading a...

2009-12-31T04:00:29.995+09:00

This was so interesting. I really enjoy reading about other cultures and their traditions and how they celebrate events. Excellent post. Happy New Year to you and may 2010 be a wonderful year.

I love all those blue lights! Very pretty :-) Me...

2009-12-28T07:46:11.469+09:00

I love all those blue lights! Very pretty :-) Merry Christmas!

I hope you had some wonderful holidays, despite th...

2009-12-28T07:09:59.359+09:00

I hope you had some wonderful holidays, despite the unusual way it is celebrated in Japan :-)

May I add, as a German native, that the German chocolate cake (from 2007) is nothing I have ever seen around here? ;-)

Thanks so much for posting about Christmas in Japa...

2009-12-27T12:12:07.567+09:00

Thanks so much for posting about Christmas in Japan. I think that seeing what happens in other countries is one of my favourite things about the Virtual Advent tour.

Thanks for participating!

This has to be one of my favorite parts about the ...

2009-12-27T01:39:24.601+09:00

This has to be one of my favorite parts about the Virtual Advent Tour -- reading about traditions that are so different from the ones my friends and I grew up with. Thank you for sharing how you celebrate abroad!

I love this, Nat. I remember your past posts on th...

2009-12-26T13:04:12.183+09:00

I love this, Nat. I remember your past posts on this very topic--especially the Christmas strawberry shortcake. I didn't remember the chicken part, though. lol

I hope you had (and have) a wonderful holiday season.

Thank you so much for sharing about Christmas in J...

2009-12-26T10:38:03.371+09:00

Thank you so much for sharing about Christmas in Japan, Nat! It's really interesting how much has been adopted and yet still how different it is.

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas!

Oh, dear. I'm not sure I could celebrate Chris...

2009-12-26T06:47:54.184+09:00

Oh, dear. I'm not sure I could celebrate Christmas with KFC. Not my favorite, although Rod loves it.

We're hunkered down "enjoying" our Midwest Blizzard. No trip to Sanibel Island this Christmas. Oh, well. I have plenty to read. Just need to drag myself away from this computer!

Hope you had a lovely Christmas, Nat.

This is such a great post! I didn't think abou...

2009-12-25T08:55:05.264+09:00

This is such a great post! I didn't think about how Christmas is celebrated in other countries. I know KFC is making a ton off of the holiday.Merry Christmas.

I was just listening to NPR and they mentioned how...

2009-12-25T07:50:53.190+09:00

I was just listening to NPR and they mentioned how KFC is very popular in Japan for Christmas dinner. So interesting to read about this.

Hope you guys are having a wonderful Christmas and enjoy your Canadian style dinner tomorrow - sounds yummy :)

love it! so interesting to see what goes on there....

2009-12-25T03:30:13.165+09:00

love it! so interesting to see what goes on there. the blue lights seem to be a trend this year. thanks for sharing this holiday with us.
btw: you've just been awarded
http://vvb32reads.blogspot.com/2009/12/heartfelt-award.html

I'm glad to hear that despite living in the co...

2009-12-25T03:28:24.203+09:00

I'm glad to hear that despite living in the country that really doesn't celebrate Christmas, you still manage to make it your own anyway. Great post too, I am glad you decided to write it since I was always curious about Japan and what they do there for Christmas.

I'm really glad you posted about this because ...

2009-12-25T00:31:14.197+09:00

I'm really glad you posted about this because I was just wondering about it yesterday! I hate KFC, blegh, glad I'm not having that for Christmas. I don't really know what a typical American Christmas is anymore. Half my friends order pizza for Christmas haha.

Lovely photos; thanks Wishing you a wonderful tim...

2009-12-24T22:27:19.682+09:00

Lovely photos; thanks

Wishing you a wonderful time with family or friends :)

Yes I've heard how the no-work holidays there ...

2009-12-24T22:05:50.265+09:00

Yes I've heard how the no-work holidays there in Japan greatly differs from that of the Western world (and even here in the Philippines). But you've got more holidays right?

Anyway, your pictures of Japan never fail to make me wish I was living there.

Have a lovely lovely weekend with your family! :)

It sounds like fun all the same...and those photos...

2009-12-24T18:18:13.471+09:00

It sounds like fun all the same...and those photos are awesome! Merry Christmas!

As someone who also has quite a sweet tooth - that...

2009-12-24T17:21:33.783+09:00

As someone who also has quite a sweet tooth - that cake looks absolutely delicious.

I'm glad you and your hubby have made Christmas your own - so that it works for you.

Great post! I did my advent on Sinterklaas (Dutch ...

2009-12-24T16:48:09.635+09:00

Great post! I did my advent on Sinterklaas (Dutch Christmas). Very cool reading about Japanese style.