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not sure why Japan is being singled out here. Nearly every culture has celebrations that are then commercialized. Christmas, Halloween, Valentine's Day, July 4
by tokyodude 8y ago
not sure why Japan is being singled out here. Nearly every culture has celebrations that are then commercialized.
Christmas, Halloween, Valentine's Day, July 4th (USA), Spring Day, Flower Day, Day of the Dead, St Patrick's Day, etc etc etc.
- scruple 8y agoAgreed. All of this is, I think, in some form, celebrating agricultural cycles, yes? Those are celebrated and turned in to holidays for good reason. I don't see why it's more interesting that it happens in country A vs. country B. But, that's just the world we live in.
- bsder 8y agoSure, but closest equivalent in the US would be the "leaf peepers" looking at the changing leaves in the Northeast US at the beginning of Autumn.
- ekianjo 8y ago> not sure why Japan is being singled out here. Nearly every culture has celebrations that are then commercialized. Japan takes it to another level though. In Europe I had never seen so much products customization happening across multiple categories at the same time.
- tokyodude 8y agoDo they? In the USA there's Christmas merchandise in every store for 2 months. People buy trees, cars, tree decorations, candles, wreaths, house lights, cakes, egg nog, etc. etc. For Halloween custom stores open all over the place for 1-2 months, candy companies come out with all kinds of special candies, pumpkin patches show up all over town, and on and on. Europe has nothing like that?