Hello and welcome to the Abroad Japan Podcast. Probably the best way to learn about life in Japan

and that actually being in Japan. I'm your host Chris Bauder, but joined as always by England's

top Japan enthusiast. Mr Pete Dawson himself, Pete Haldeville, are you doing? What's going on?

I'm good. I've just shared a half of a melon with a dog. It is wintertime here in the south of

England. South of England and so we're kind of all in our exercising our big court protocol as a

friend calls it and we're all sort of considering whether to put the heating on or considering whether

to put our big courts on and everything just feels a little bit a little bit odd to me, a little bit

Christmas-y Chris, a little Christmas fun. They've already whipped out the Christmas decorations here in

Japan. They've been my Halloween tour. They have to sort of preemptively strike, get a preemptive

strike on the seasons here in Japan and even their Christmas is still like two and a half months away.

They just want to get in. They just want to do it. They love it. It's really weird. Do they have

obviously the Americanisation of Japan and Tokyo? Is there any sort of love for Thanksgiving?

Is there a Thanksgiving vibe? Because obviously they do Christmas just for a laugh. Surely they could

get involved with Thanksgiving nonsense? You'd think so, wouldn't you? But no, there really isn't anything

to do with Thanksgiving here. That's the one that has steered clear of Japan. Looted them. Halloween.

Yeah, Halloween and Christmas are big deals in. Especially Halloween, actually.

Though of course, as we reported last week, don't go to Shibuya and Halloween because you can't

eat drinks or smile on the night of Halloween now because of there is naughty things that happen

there. Yeah, it's a shame. I'm in the Christmas spirit though, already.

Now there's like, treason things around. I'm feeling it. I'm feeling Christmas.

Now there's treason things around. What are the trees doing? Oh, Christmas trees?

Oh, right. You spend all summer ignoring trees. Your tree seasons are very much February

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