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A KFC holiday queue.
Kinwashi Tour Japan Thread
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This year is another festive year for KFC in Japan!, the website changed back in November to show this cute Christmas scene. This year I am slightly surprised as McDonalds Japan, haven’t tried to compete with KFC Japan at Christmas with their Icon Box (View KFC Japan VS McDonalds Japan…Round 2, Christmas 2011).
The website look’s really nice and has different links off it, such as the link to view this years commercial.
The CM is pretty cute with the singer and all the Christmas outfits etc..and they of course have a special plate for 2012 as well, which you can see below.
The menu page look’s similar to other years, with KFC charging an arm and a leg..well a chicken leg for couples/families to enjoy KFC.
The menu is pretty similar to the previous year’s, but you can view a larger version of the 2012 menu by clicking here.
This year the two main meals consists of the iconic KFC box, with the Colonel inside the reef, a plate, salad, chicken and cake.
Or for the same price you can swap the amount of chicken for some spicier chicken?
The one difference I noticed this year, is the bread! The bread can be seen in the picture below and it look’s pretty tasty
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I hope to try KFC in Japan during Christmas, but I wish everyone a Happy Kentucky Fried Christmas 2012 (ケンタッã‚ーフライドãƒ�ã‚ンクリスマス２ï¼�１２)!
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Sing along and learn from here.
In Japanese.
Meri Kurisumasu.
video.
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In Japan ....Christmas are alway special,
even this are not miss.
http://japandailypress.com/japanese-christmas-cakes-for-canines-0719485
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Last Christmas.
McDonald's vs. KFC for Japan's best 'festive feast'
The season of goodwill becomes a battleground for fast-food meals as McDonald's tries to usurp KFC as Japan's Christmas chicken king
A KFC holiday queue.Christmas in Tokyo yields a special kind of wonder, an unofficial holiday spreading commercial good cheer. Open stores decked with decoration, romantic restaurants booked for Christmas-Eve date night (when reportedly condom vendors enjoy a robust sales spurt) and, of course ... holiday lines at Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Colonel Sanders as Santa Claus.A legend is born
KFC (or “kentakkii,” as it’s popularly known) launched its Japan-wide Christmas campaign in 1974 and since then has aggressively marketed its buckets as a holiday essential.
Today, as Public Radio International's Akiko Fujita has reported, "KFC commercials signal the start of the Christmas season in Japan."
According to the company, their holiday campaign was first conceived in 1971, at their Aoyama store. A homesick foreigner wandered in, bemoaned Japan’s lack of turkey, and chose fried chicken as the next-best alternative.
Today, the company claims, ”Japan has a custom of chicken for Christmas, and the origin of this custom is KFC.”
According to one Tokyo-based consumer, who gives her name as Chisato, this reasoning still holds sway. “Turkey here is hard to get, and we don’t have big ovens like in the United States, so it’s easier to eat fried chicken,” says Chisato.
Rie, an office worker, explains that her family’s trigger for eating KFC on Christmas is always TV advertising. When “the ad comes on, someone says, ‘Why don’t we eat a KFC bucket on Christmas,’ and somehow, we all feel that’s a good idea,’” she says.
KFC’s Holiday Bucket.Japanese press declares 'Chicken War'
But in recent years, KFC’s Christmas supremacy has been in peril, as a new heavy-hitting contender has entered the ring: McDonald’s.
Dubbed a “chicken war” by the Japanese media, the battle of the bird has been heating up since 2010, when McDonald’s unveiled its fowl-centric "iCon" menu.
Popular business magazine Diamond reported it’s been “getting hotter and hotter in the chicken market,” especially since McD's CEO Eikoh Harada boldly proclaimed, “McDonald’s is No. 1 for chicken.”
An increasing emphasis on chicken
Although Harada admitted customers don’t yet think of McDonald’s as the leader in fast-food chicken, he pointed out that, with industry chicken sales at ¥392 billion and McDonalds’s with a 16.3 percent slice of the bird pie (¥64 billion), the Golden Arches actually holds top market share.
With the Yuletide season upon us, Kentucky is bound to track McDonald’s maneuvers, especially since KFC’s Naoyuki Oishi told the Japan Times, in a past interview, that the company’s average Christmas chicken sales represent 20 percent of annual revenue.
Still, McDonald’s denies any outright challenge to KFC, saying, “We are not trying to attack KFC. We are just focusing on chicken."
KFC’s Christmas Roast Chicken feels a lot like turkey to some consumers (no Western-sized oven required).Foul call?
But industry watchers such as Diamond and Insights don’t buy McDonald’s pacifist intentions.
That changed in 2010, they claim, when KFC upped the ante by opening a new, high-concept Shibuya store -- right next door to McDonalds’s “strategic ‘next-generation’ shop.”
Still, a quick glance at both companies’ online real estate suggests that, for the time being at least, McDonald’s hasn’t launched an overt attack on the “Kentucky-for-Christmas” brand.
Thus, market watchers and revelers alike may have to wait until Christmases future to see whether the rivalry between McDonald’s and Kentucky erupts into a full-fledged holiday hoedown.
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This is the Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go & Gokayama. Shirakawa-go Historic Village comprises 59 preserved gassho-zukuri houses in Ogimachi village, Shirakawa-go, Gifu Prefecture. Along with 20 houses in Ainokura village and nine houses in Suganuma village in Gokayama, neighbouring Toyama Prefecture, they were collectively inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1995. The photo above is the one at Ainokura village.
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Winter is the best, when you decide to come.
No regret coming in winter.
video.
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So this is what we are saying UNESCO World Heritage site.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmxEb6jIrmY
Save your money come see this.
Shirakawa-go Historic Village
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHxW5ENy-S0
EarlyBirds.
What pandas preview entrance fee plus another five dollars.
Total 25 dollars.
see or no see.
you decide here or there in Japan.
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What is all this from Japan?
Aoki
ShuzoHakuryu
ShuzoIchishima
Shuzokiminoi
Shuzo
Kinshihai
ShuzoKirinzan
ShuzoMatsunoi
ShuzojoMidorikawa
Shuzo
Minogawa
ShuzoMusashino
ShuzoObata
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So now we are in this place.
Ever or never see before, like this kind.
Big Swan.
Over here,
now we just started to get one here.
after so long.
http://www.taiyokogyo.co.jp/wc_stadium/stadium_e/eng/match/niigata/index.html
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What Arts are we talikng here?
Just only we are beginning to be serious in Arts.
see in Niigata.
Home - Travel - Essentials - Sean's Japan Travel Journal Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2012 Sean's Japan Travel Journal
by Sean, staff writer of japan-guide.comprevious post index next post 2012/08/20 - Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2012 
"An absolutely brilliant idea!" was the first thing that came to my mind when I first heard of the concept four years ago. The social trend of the young leaving the countryside for vibrant cities is a story familiar in many countries. To draw some interest back? Hold an art festival and place the exhibits over a vast area covering six municipalities. Make people look for them like a treasure hunt, and in the process discover or rediscover the beauty of the countryside.
The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial is held in Niigata, a prefecture along the Sea of Japan famous for its rice. When I first went to the area in 2008, I was instantly drawn by its idyllic roads, windswept grasslands, and acres and acres of paddy fields. That year wasn't a year when the festival was held, so I could only look at remaining exhibits from 2000, 2003 and 2006. I told myself that I'd return one day when the festival is ongoing, and return I did today.
Paddy fields of Niigata
Impressive new additions have been made to the art collection this year, some of which Scott has reported about last month. In particular, I really liked the pieces No Man's Land and Lachiku. The art pieces at the Soil Museum were great too.
"No Man's Land" at Kinare
Lachiku
The Soil Museum is set at a former school
Art pieces made with soil from different parts of Japan
Nostalgic classroom
Here are some of many other art pieces that were newly added this year:
Waterborne Canes of the Heart
The Tail of Dragon
Outland -MOTHER- is an architectural art cum camping site with additions from 2006, 2009 and 2012
new "Hokuetsu anecdote" ~ rebirth of the myth ~
The wind of buds (2012) and Landscapes creeper (2009)
As I went on my treasure hunting, I also saw many interesting exhibits that were preserved from previous festivals:
Butterfly Pavillon
Stone Fish
Sentry of Forest
For Lots of Lost Windows
Connect with the Forest
Set North for Japan
"Aim at Top of Kakashi!" World Scarecrow Contest
House of Light
Movable roof opens in the House of Light
The Last Class
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Do you know this?
Japan earthquake: Second tremor strikes in Niigata
The 6.7 magnitude second quake struck in Niigata prefecture in the north west of Honshu island in the early hours of Saturday morning, local time.
Parts of Japan have been flooded (KeystoneUSA-Zuma / Rex)
Police said there were no reports of any new casualties, but that the latest tremor had caused landslides.
Japan’s emergency services were already struggling to deal with the impact of the 8.9 magnitude tremor centred just off the north-east of the island on Friday afternoon.
The quake, thought to have been the largest in the area for 1,200 years, triggered a massive tsunami that hit Japan’s north-east coast.
Television footage showed widespread damage to property and floods washing away houses and cars.
Sendai was the worst affected place and authorities fear that hundreds of the city’s residents have lost their lives.
The confirmed death toll from the quake and tsunami is 184, with 530 people reported missing and more than 700 injured.
Police believe the total number of fatalities could be more than 1,000, amid reports that four passenger trains were washed away when the huge waves struck the coast.
Tsunami warnings have been issued across the Pacific region and a number of countries have evacuated people from coastal areas.
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Know what is this?
From here...this wooden tub.
Taraibune
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Swans at Lake Hyoko
Update:2012.11.08
Every year thousands of swans fly to nationally famous Lake Hyoko. The area surrounding the lake has been established as a rich natural park.
(Address) 313-1 Suibara, Agano City (Best time to go) October- March (Contact) Agano City Tourism Association (Tel) 0250-62-2510 
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Wow, one thousand years olive tree, see also wanted to laugh.
over here, somemore main attraction, imported.
See like this, how many years. over in Japan.
We are talking the size, how to house it, the sizes.
And many you can see, or part of Japan.
Osado Ishina Natural Cedar Forest
Update:2011.09.16
Sado is a trove of natural cedar forests. The Osado Ishina Natural Cedar Forest is not a place for hiking or trekking, but rather for enjoying a leisurely walk.Whether young or old, anyone can easily have a great time there.
Since the cedars grow in the cool, windy climate at an elevation of 900m, their shapes are different from most cedar trees, making a scene straight out of a　fairytale. The trees range from about 200-400 years old. While preserving the trees, a walking path was completed in 2011 to attract a greater number of visitors.
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