do japanese people celebrate xmas?
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Yes. But they just party, eat christmas cake and buy presents and have fun. Children mostly believe in Santa Claus. It's not really a serious religious eveng in Japan so majority of Japanese don't go to the church or anything on Christmas tho. It's just a fun day for them.
912674
I don't celebrate Christmas.\nI'm Jewish!\nHappy Hanukkah!!!!\n(December 15 - 23)
662223
Probably \n- 90% is Japanese.\n- Nearly 100% of them speaks Japanese.
797175
no---Its a celebration Of Jesus Christ's birthday\n\nits not Santamas .....its not Xmas....its CHRISTmas
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Err, being as it IS a Shinto festival, why would devout families disapprove of it? All religions are not uptight and disapproving of stuff like Christianity is. The festival is a normal thing. Shinto priests are the ones organizing it.\nIf any priests disapprove of anything, I`m sure it`s the huge number of non-Japanese that flood the place JUST for the festival - and snigger at everything penis shaped.\nIt`s a fertility festival. Get over it people.
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Maybe. But I wonder why they listen to J-pop, buy Japanese products, and read Japanese fashion magazines.\nWeired...\nThey want all Japanese go down on knees in front of Koreans. (this is thier word).\nBut Japan always go with exact historical data only, and have a tendency to look the future than looking back.\nEven as for A-bomb, Japanese doesn't grumble about the past.\n\nhttp://www.geocities.jp/dinetomi76/cyousen.html
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♡You already got a few answers but I'll add my two yen (two cents) too. Here are a few interesting(?) fact about Japanese culture and I hope this helps with your speech:♡\n*It seems that every culture has lucky numbers and unlucky numbers. In Japan, four and nine are considered as unlucky numbers because of their pronunciation. Four is pronounced "shi" which is the same pronunciation as death. Nine is pronounced "ku" which has the same pronunciation as agony or torture.\n\n*Seven appears to be a universally lucky or holy number. There are many terms that include the number seven: seven wonders of the world, seven deadly sins, seven virtues, the seven seas, seven days of the week, seven colors of the spectrum, the seven dwarfs, and so on. Buddhists believe in seven reincarnations. The Japanese celebrate the seventh day after a baby's birth, and mourn the seventh day and seventh week following a death.\n\n*Don't say "NO"\nThe Japanese try to avoid confrontations and direct questions that might create discomfort or a loss of face. The Japanese are not direct, open, or frank. Often they are criticized for being too vague, but their real intentions might be to respect and develop a relationship.\n\n*Presentation\nFor the Japanese, the form is often more important than the content. The way something is said is just as important as what is actually said. The manner in which the food is presented at the table is as important as the taste of the food. The gift wrapping and presentation of a gift can be more important than the gift itself.\n\n*Working overtime\nUnlike Western custom, workers do not leave promptly at closing time. They do not leave until their bosses have and frequently stay quite late every night. It is also embarrassing to be the first one to leave and you do not just sneak out the door. Much of the productive work is done after hours and workers have a chance to be less formal with each other.\n\n*House slippers \nHomes are quite private in Japan and you do not just "drop by" without an invitation. If you are just making an errand, do not expect to go right into the house, but stay at the door or in the entrance area called the "genkan". All shoes worn outside are taken off in the genkan and you are provided your own guest slippers to be worn inside the house. You do not wear these slippers in a tatami room and you remove them at the entrance to the tatami room, even if you have bare feet. Also, you do not wear these slippers in the room for the toilet. There are special slippers designated for use while in the toilet room. This is also a signal to someone else that the toilet is occupied.\n\n*Greetings\nIn a Japanese home, you should always ‘announce' when you are leaving the house or when you have returned. [I'm leaving (home) -iitekimasu / I'm home - tadaima]Appropriately, the people in the house wish you off or receive you into the home. As a courtesy, "good-night" and "good morning" salutations are always said.
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I think this banning culture of the UK has got the worst of you! Come on! Let others enjoy things, I'm sure they want to ban things that you enjoy. Let's not be so bad to each other trying to kill the joy in something people like to do. Let's ban the banning culture! Have a good Xmas by treating yourself to a holiday in a country where Xmas is not celebrated!!! You could do with a week somewhere nice and warm.
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Of course we celebrate Christmas\n\n"don we now our gay apparel...."\n\nHelloooo????\n\nRing a bell?\n\n"Sugar Plum FAERIES!"\n\nBut Sir, do tell more of this holiday you speak of, Behind Day!  Sounds intriguing.
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You got to many questions. Your in violation 6.25-3A... \n\nxmas lanterns came originated from the Asia, replicating the bright star that guided the 3 kings to the stables. xmas tree came from the western world. they were so bored they decorated pine trees. Santa Claus is a Saint! Each regions of the world has their own interpretation and versions. but basically, businessman upgraded the Santa idea.
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Whenever a child is born in Japan, a local Shinto shrine adds the child's name to a list kept at the shrine and declares him or her "Ujiko", literally named child. After death an "Ujiko" becomes an "Ujigami"; literally, named kami.  A kami is sort of like a god, but not in a western sense, more like what we'd call a demi god or just a spirit.\n\nThe coming of age celebration, called Seijin shiki, is held on the second monday of January and is celebrated by those who have recently reached 20 years of age - the "age of the majority" in Japan (not just Shinto).  Many women celebrate this day by wearing furisode, a special kind of kimono, while men sometimes also wear traditional dress (dark kimono or hakama).
673158
Of course Christmas is celebrated, atheists are semi-normal people. The 'Christ' part is ignored, and most atheists are the 'closet' type, they don't go around bad mouthing Christians like the the very liberal types do.
1059102
I am from the middle east too, even arabs take part in our celebrations. Countries like UAE, Egypt, Lebanon, Baharain, Oman, Qatar have a number of Christian churches and are quite permissive in allowing ppl to follow their religion. but in some countries, celebrating christmas is a crime, as is conducting worship services.
24587
Yes unless its a holiday and this is an old question!
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merry Xmas ho ho ho,\nwe're all so sad to see you go,\nbut you'll be back just wait and see,\nwe'll still be here unfortunately,\nthat's okay... we don't care,\ncos Xmas is the best time of year.
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doesn't new year's precede christmas like... every year? so 2005
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Okay . . . Okay . . . the questioner is correct . . . \n\nChristmas is originally a pagan holiday . . . a week long festival . . . actually 12 days long . . . reminds you of a song.\n\nThis holiday was adopted to convert pagans into Christianity . . . and they accepted it hook, line, and sinker.\n\nThe majority of the holidays celebrated by Christian have pagan origins . . . but back to Christmas . . . \n\nSome of you said you celebrate this day in remembrance of the birth of Christ.  Did Christ ask his followers to remember his birth?  No he did not . . . instead he commanded his followers to commemorate the last supper in his remembrance . . . . Not do perform it daily or weekly . . . but annually like the early christians did . . . prior to 325 AD.