When in Rome.. For the Japanese, Christmas is a completely secular holiday. They basically made Christmas what they thought Americans did for Christmas. One major American corporation that was able to take advantage of this was Kentucky Fried Chicken, who somehow gaslit the entire nation of Japan into thinking that all Americans ate fried chicken for Christmas. Now, it is a completely Japanese tradition to get Kentucky Fried Chicken buckets for Christmas. The crazy thing is, Japanese people still think Americans do this and are shocked when they find out that we don’t actually eat fried chicken for Christmas. Another Japanese holiday tradition is to have a white cake with strawberries. Interestingly, Christmas is not a family holiday in Japan, but rather a romantic couples holiday. This is probably because so many Christmas songs are about romance? Either way, they completely got Christmas wrong, but it’s hilarious, and we decided to celebrate it their way a little bit too. We invited our friends, the Passey’s, over for fried chicken and white Christmas cake.