{"id":15724,"date":"2010-12-22T12:02:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T16:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=15724"},"modified":"2025-12-19T17:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:40:42","slug":"christmas-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/22\/christmas-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"J-DOC: This is how Christmas in Japan is Celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hillslearning.com\/articles\/christmas-time-in-japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christmas in Japan<\/a>J-DOC, C-DOC, and K-DOC<\/em><\/strong><em> are recurring features written by Friend Of JET, <strong>Jon Hills<\/strong>, who maintains the blog for <strong>Hills Learning<\/strong> (<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillslearning.com\/\"><em>www.hillslearning.com<\/em><\/a><em>). Hills Learning is a NY-based langu<\/em><em>age learning services company offering customized and personal Japanese, Chinese, English, and Korean language learning options.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Japanese Class listing can be found at: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hillslearning.com\/classes\/japanese-classes-dallas\">Japanese Classes Dallas<\/a> OR \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillslearning.com\/classes\/japaneseclassesnyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Japanese Courses<\/a> OR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hillslearning.com\/classes\/japanese-lessons-online\">Japanese Classes Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Being that most Japanese are Buddhist and Shinto, Christmas takes on a very different meaning in Japan. The streets are still decorated with Christmas lights and images of Santa Claus. Christmas music still plays incessantly everywhere you go. And, the shops and department stores still have great sales. But unlike in America and other Western countries, Christmas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read the full article &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hillslearning.com\/articles\/christmas-time-in-japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christmas in Japan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas in JapanJ-DOC, C-DOC, and K-DOC are recurring features written by Friend Of JET, Jon Hills, who maintains the blog for Hills Learning (www.hillslearning.com). Hills Learning is a NY-based language learning services company offering customized and personal Japanese, Chinese, English, and Korean language learning options. Japanese Class listing can be found at: Japanese Classes Dallas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-45C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15724"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51723,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15724\/revisions\/51723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}