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The major religion in Japan is called Shintoism - an offshoot of Buddhism and other eastern faiths. As such, they do not celebrate "Christmas" per se, since Christmas is a holiday in the Christian religion only. This is why I found the mid-80s hunger relief song "Do They Know it's Christmas", the "Band-Aid" song, so bizarre - 99% of the children starving in Ethiopia were not Christians, so of course they didn't know it's Christmas. The title of the song might just as well have been "Do They Know It's Passover?" or "Do they Know it's Buddha's Birthday?"

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