TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Unlike the buzzing Christmas festivities observed across European countries, Christmas in Japan is not a widely celebrated religious holiday. With Christianity being one of the ...

Imagine this: your Christmas list is cut down to zero people. Instead of spending Christmas Eve arguing with your siblings about who qualifies as the true black sheep of the family, you go out on a ...

From radish carving in Oaxaca to the Alpine regions' Krampus, there's no shortage of creative ways to ring in the season ...

When former Vancouverite Tamotsu Nagata returned to his place of birth a strange, if familiar, icon was there to greet him. Photo via Shutterstock. Everyone complains about Christmas commercialization ...

Christmas is fast approaching and for people all over the world, this heralds the arrival of long-held food traditions. But just what counts as ‘traditional’ can be markedly different from one part of ...

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Almost every year since she was a child, Hokkaido resident Naomi has looked forward to her family’s traditional Christmas meal: a KFC “party barrel” brimming with salad, cake and lots of fried chicken ...

The line of people stretches out the door of the restaurant. There are moms, dads, a kid or two and young couples, all waiting to pick up their Christmas meals. In Japan, the Christmas tradition isn't ...

Carey Arroyo grew up in Dumaguete City—“the city of gentle people,” she likes to say—and spent many Christmases there. She loves a lot of things about Christmas in the Philippines. “The festive spirit ...

In Japan, couples embraced the holiday as a romantic occasion. Churches worldwide celebrated Christmas on Wednesday, honouring the birth of Jesus with prayers, Masses, and cultural events. Families ...