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. "In Japan, it is customary to eat ...

It started in the early 1970s, when KFC was still new in Japan ... No matter what you eat, Japan has embraced Christmas, an imported holiday that has thrived and gained millions of new revelers ...

a KFC “party barrel” brimming with salad, cake and lots of fried chicken. “In Japan, it is customary to eat chicken at Christmas,” says the 30-something Japanese woman. “Every year ...