To make life more convenient (and lucrative), KFC has also spread Christmas out to include the days leading up to December 25 ...

KFC Japan celebrates the 40th anniversary of its party bucket in 2025. Find out why the fast-food chain has been a popular ...

One of Sumire Sekino’s most memorable Christmases involved spending the day hopping around some of Tokyo’s best date spots with her boyfriend. That day, she recalled, began with the pair snapping away ...

Turning on its lights for the first time on Nov. 1, Fukuoka City’s “Christmas Market in Hikari no Machi” was one of the earliest to open in the country. Other major cities in Japan weren’t too far ...

Spending Christmas in Japan single doesn’t have to feel lonely — Japan offers plenty of ways to enjoy the holiday on your own. Christmas is a holiday traditionally associated with family gatherings ...

It's Christmas, but not as you know it. Since World War II, Japan has embraced the typically Western holiday and made it its own. There's Santa, trees, and presents, but on the Christmas lunch table ...

In Japan, children look forward to a visit from Hotei, a jolly Japanese god with a rotund frame. Ganref As Christmas approaches, children in many parts of the world look forward to a visit from the ...

Only about 1 percent of the Japanese population is Christian. But you might not realize that if you visited a major metropolitan area during Christmastime. Just as in America, you'll find heads topped ...

As KFC tells it, this curious Christmas custom dates back to the 1970s, when Takeshi Okawara, Harvard alumnus and manager of the first KFC franchise in Japan, overheard foreigners at his store ...