{"id":62,"date":"2025-01-08T20:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.svarc.school\/via\/urbanova\/?p=62"},"modified":"2025-01-08T20:00:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T20:00:48","slug":"christmas-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.svarc.school\/via\/urbanova\/2025\/01\/08\/christmas-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Commercial Celebration<\/strong><\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Japan, Christmas is not a religious holiday in the same way it is in Western countries, as the majority of the population practices&nbsp;<strong>Shinto<\/strong>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<strong>Buddhism<\/strong>, with only a small percentage being Christian. Instead, Christmas is largely seen as a&nbsp;<strong>commercial<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>cultural event<\/strong>, with an emphasis on fun, romance, and the joy of giving. It\u2019s more akin to a&nbsp;<strong>celebration of winter<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>festivity<\/strong>&nbsp;rather than a religious observance of the birth of Jesus Christ.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Christmas decorations<\/strong>&nbsp;begin appearing in stores and public spaces in late November, and major shopping districts like&nbsp;<strong>Tokyo&#8217;s Shibuya<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Ginza<\/strong>&nbsp;become beautifully adorned with Christmas lights, elaborate window displays, and&nbsp;<strong>Christmas trees<\/strong>. The season is marked by special&nbsp;<strong>sales<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>promotions<\/strong>, and the introduction of&nbsp;<strong>Christmas-themed products<\/strong>&nbsp;in shops.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Commercial Celebration In Japan, Christmas is not a religious holiday in the same way it is in Western countries, as the majority of the population practices&nbsp;Shinto&nbsp;or&nbsp;Buddhism, with only a small percentage being Christian. Instead, Christmas is largely seen as a&nbsp;commercial&nbsp;and&nbsp;cultural event, with an emphasis on fun, romance, and the joy of giving. It\u2019s more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.svarc.school\/via\/urbanova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.svarc.school\/via\/urbanova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.svarc.school\/via\/urbanova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.svarc.school\/via\/urbanova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.svarc.school\/via\/urbanova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.svarc.school\/via\/urbanova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/web.svarc.school\/via\/urbanova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.svarc.school\/via\/urbanova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.svarc.school\/via\/urbanova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.svarc.school\/via\/urbanova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}