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halloween - ruiner - 2009-11-02
So what was that like in Japan this year. I heard Kawasaki is big on Halloween? I've seen various English-language Japanese blogs on the topic, but personal experiences from fellow RTKers would be cool.
halloween - Jarvik7 - 2009-11-02
Halloween is mostly a non-event in Japan. There are children's parties at whatever English school they goto (if they goto one), and some foreigners and 外国憧れ日本人 goto lame foreigner clubs to drink. That's about it.
halloween - Tzadeck - 2009-11-02
I had a fun night drinking on Kiyamachi in Kyoto. Lots of Japanese people seemed to be out drinking in costume. We started off at a Halloween event at a foreigner bar... but actually there were only about 8 foreigners there, including the four of us. Maybe 50 people were at the party. We met WAY more Japanese people than one would on a regular night (especially since my friend was dressed in a Rirakkuma costume which everyone seemed to love).
halloween - ruiner - 2009-11-03
I've been reading that the Christmas-like sense of commercial, superficial appropriation (ie just add orange and black and some traditional monsters to packages to sell more products) is strong, but that Halloween is becoming more and more popular in Japan (thought I haven't seen anything but single subjective 'Halloween is becoming more popular' statements). That Kawasaki Halloween parade apparently has 2-3k people participating and thousands more watching? I wonder if the summer-centric haunted house themes flair up around Halloween now too (like that haunted hospital that's really long?).
I haven't seen much about pedestrian participation in the costumes and candy, but I'm getting the impression that's relegated to city/club-goers. Well frankly, trick-or-treating seems like mostly a suburban thing in America anyway, so that particular tradition was never all that universal. ;p
PS - Is there a name/word for those school traditions where couples go on some kind of scary walk as part of a dare to bless their relationship? (Or did I just make most of that up. I probably got a detail or two wrong, but do you know what I'm talking about?)
halloween - Thora - 2009-11-03
ruiner Wrote:... pedestrian ...har har nice
halloween - ninetimes - 2009-11-03
肝試し?
halloween - ruiner - 2009-11-03
ninetimes Wrote:肝試し?That's it! Thanks. And look at that, an entry on it at tvtropes. Figures.