Tokyo Christmas Lights 2011
One of the biggest surprises for westerners visiting or working in Tokyo is the extremes that the Japanese go to in order to celebrate Christmas. This is particularly unusual when you take in to account the fact that less than one percent of the population are Christians. Every store is blasting out Jingle bells and Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer, all the shop windows have sleds and Christmas trees and the streets are lit up everywhere with multi colored fairy lights.
One of the most spectacular Christmas traditions is the multi-media outdoor display held each year behind the Tokyo Midtown Shopping Mall. This display puts Disney to shame (see clip below). What makes this extravaganza even more weird is the fact that it is payed for and promoted by the Emirates Airlines. So you have to come to Japan to see Shinos and Budhists celebrating a Christian festival that is being presented by Muslams. In the classic words of Disney “It is a Small world”
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