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YoshidaYui

(41,880 posts) Thu Dec 23, 2021, 08:26 PM Dec 2021

How do Japanese People Celebrate Christmas?

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How do Japanese People Celebrate Christmas? (Original Post) YoshidaYui Dec 2021 OP

I've been mispronouncing those words my whole life! Buckeye_Democrat Dec 2021 #1

Unfortunately, Christmas is not a national holiday in Japan EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #2

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,861 posts)

1. I've been mispronouncing those words my whole life!

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Thu Dec 23, 2021, 08:41 PM

Dec 2021

In America, Santa pronounces yoisho as yowee-shit, as in "Yowee-shit, I strained my back lifting this huge bag of gifts!"

EastMeetsWest

(191 posts)

2. Unfortunately, Christmas is not a national holiday in Japan

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Thu Jan 13, 2022, 12:11 AM

Jan 2022

It used to be that Westerners could celebrate Christmas a couple of days earlier, on December 23, in conjunction with the then-emperor's birthday. But now that there's a new emperor, the December 23 holiday has been moved to his birthday, February 23.

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