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Dec 2024

52m 5s

Christmas in Japanese Literature

About this episode

Happy holidays! And, in the interest of today’s episode, merri kurisumasu!

Today we’re going to start with the origins of Christmas, especially why Christmas is celebrated in Japan at all. We’ll move on to how Christmas is celebrated in Japan. And we’ll end with some examples of what part Christmas seems to play in Japanese literature—or at least Japanese literature that gets translated.

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