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KFC Japan expanded the promotion nationwide in 1974 with its long running "Kentucky for Christmas" (Japanese: クリスマスはケンタッキー) or "Kentucky Christmas" (Japanese: ケンタッキークリスマス) advertising campaign. [4] Eating KFC food as a Christmas time meal has since become a widely practiced custom in Japan.
It started in the early 1970s, when KFC was still new in Japan. It began marketing chicken as the country's Christmas meat with the catchphrase “Christmas is Kentucky.”
In December 1974, KFC Japan began to promote fried chicken as a Christmas meal. [67] Eating KFC at Christmas time has become a "Traditional Christmas Eve Dinner" in Japan. [68] [69] As of 2013, Japan is the third-largest market for KFC after China and the United States with 1,200 outlets. [70] In December 2007, Mitsubishi assumed majority ...
A long queue of patrons running out the door of nearly every KFC has been a perennial Christmas sight in Japan but COVID-19 social distancing rules that discourage lines and place strict ...
Despite only 1.1% of the Japanese population being Christian, according to the U.S. State Department, post-World War II Japan has largely observed Christmas, in part due to the large U.S. military ...
Japanese-style Christmas cakes in a display case at Nijiya Market. Japanese Christmas cake, a white sponge cake covered with cream and decorated with strawberries, is often consumed, and Stollen cake, made locally, is widely available. A successful advertising campaign in the 1970s made eating at KFC around Christmas a national custom. Its ...
The streetwear-inspired, KFC-branded collection includes sweatshirts, T-shirts, a festive sweater, a hoodie, a beanie, socks, a tumbler, coffee mug, and even wrapping paper.
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