So popular are the "party barrels", now known as "Christmas dinner packages", they make up a staggering third of KFC's total annual sales in Japan, according to TimeOut.

Japan’s KFC Christmas Meal According to a BBC report, eating Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) for Christmas dinner is a thing in Japan. The tradition allegedly started in 1974. Not long after the ...

At Kentucky Fried Chicken's Japanese outlets, Christmas is the busiest time of the year--with people rushing out to buy fried chicken and cake. Photo: Miho Inada/The Wall Street Journal ...

Thanksgiving part 2, right? For millions of people in Japan, the perfect Christmas dinner is a good meal from KFC. Yup. You're reading that correctly. Business booms every year for KFC on ...