Many Japanese celebrate Christmas. Families and friends hold parties with cakes and nice foods. Along with the New Year holidays, it is a big event of the party season. Most Japanese do not go to church for the Christmas mass. Also, Christmas is not a holiday.

Parents with small children give them “gift from Santa Claus”. Couple may also give each other gifts. On Christmas Eve, popular restaurants are packed with couples. The non-Christian Japanese started celebrating Christmas from the early 20th century. You could say that is a “commercialized version of Christmas”.

【Movie】There are five funny differences on how people in Japan celebrate this particular holiday.