Every year in Japan around Christmas time they pull out all the stops to decorate inside and outside the public spaces and shopping centres with the most dazzling Christmas trees and decorations.
Young Japanese people dressed up as santa in Kyoto.
A group of young Japanese women playing Christmas carols with a variety of different pitched bells in the foyer of a hotel in Kyoto.
A multi level Christmas lights display in Namba, Osaka at a shopping centre.
The Salvation Army playing Christmas carols on the trumpet outside Takashimaya department store, Kyoto. This is not a usual sight in Japan because although the Japanese go along with their western counterparts in making a big display of Christmas trees , santas, reindeer, bells and lights they don’t have an understanding of what it’s all about. Only 1.5% of Japanese are Christian.