A Multicultural Family’s Christmas Traditions
How does a highly mobile expat family celebrate Christmas? This is the story of one multicultural family’s Christmas tradtions.
foreign traditions
メリークリスマス * Merry Christmas in Japanese
Christmas in Japan is unlike Christmas anywhere else in the world. The employees in the shopping centre entrance shout out aloud “Meeri kurisumasu!!!“, the Japanese way of “Merry Christmas”, and welcome you with a deep, elegant bow. Their uniforms sparkle in the colourful lights of the big plastic Christmas trees along the escalators. A big Santa is …