Everywhere you go you can the christmas jingles and songs in department stores, grocery stores, etc. Sometimes just the tune is played, but it is nice to hear. Doesnt quite feel like christmas season or anything as there just isnt quite as many xmas trees, or decorations, or snow around to bring that feeling. But it is a nice attempt.
Anyways i thought to myself what songs i would be hearing back home right now, such as silent night, frosty the snowman, rudolph, 12 days of christmas, all i want for xmas, and other songs. So i thought in japan some of those common hits would be popular too, but of course i was wrong. After taking a quick poll from my kids and listening to songs in the stores. There were the common songs such as jingle bells, and we wish you a merry xmas, but it pretty much ended there. Amazingly the #1 christmas song is none of the ones listed above but that 80s hit song by WHAM aka george michael and company, yes, Last Christmas .... yes, it is true that is the number one song known by japanese for xmas ... a popular karoke favorite and store tune .. i would have never guessed !
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