The reason why Japanese people eat chicken at Christmas = Korean coverage (image provision: Wowkorea)
In Japan, there are two things to eat for Christmas. Christmas cake and Christmas chicken. If you go back to this custom, the United States will come out, but it is noted that there is no such tradition in the United States. The reason why Japan eats cakes at Christmas has begun with illusions, a recent view of the Japan Modern Culture Study Group. On December 24, 1950, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported the phenomenon that Christmas cakes are selling in Ginza, Tokyo. At that time, US soldiers, who had been stationed in Japan as the Allied Occupation Army after the war, celebrated Christmas with cakes. In 1948, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported how to mass -produce Christmas cakes for US military troops. The Japanese who saw this misunderstood that it was an American custom to spend Christmas while eating cakes. In fact, there was no such culture in the United States. Since then, in 1950, the United States began selling over -produced wheat to Japan. Private companies have begun to import wheat and can freely produce and sell cakes, and Japanese who longed for US culture rushed to buy Christmas cakes. The "Christmas chicken" culture unique to Japan was also influenced by the US military. In Europe, on a special day like Christmas, luxury dishes are lined up on the table. Later, the new continent was pioneered, and people from Europe began to eat turkey, which was easier to breed than gangs, and after the war, a frozen seven birds were delivered to US soldiers spending Christmas in Japan. Among the Japanese who witnessed this, the perception that "Christmas is a seven -sided bird" spread. The problem was the price. At that time, the price of the seven -sided bird reached 5,000 yen per person, and the starting salary of college graduates was about 14,000 yen, but it was considerably higher. Japanese people who want to spend Christmas while eating seven birds like the United States used yakitori. One step further from here, KFC chicken has established KFC chicken as a Japanese Christmas traditional dish, Takeshi Okawa, the first store manager of KFC, who entered Japan in 1970. The request of Santa -based kindergarten near the store would like to deliver Christmas chicken and deliver Christmas chicken, and rumored that "the United States will eat KFC chicken in Christmas." His unfounded advertising phrases were on the NHK radio waves of Japanese public broadcasting, and in Japan, KFC chicken, which sold during the Christmas season, reached 10 times the monthly sales and established as a traditional dish. Cake and KFC as a traditional Christmas dish are said to be the result of the Japanese desires of that era and the strategy that uses it. However, it seems that such a figure has changed recently. It is said that Christmas is a symbol of old things among some young people. The Toyo Keizai Shimbun told the atmosphere of a different Christmas on the 24th, saying, "It was an anniversary of spending a lot of money in the bubble era, and it was an image of a day for lovers, but emphasizing the current cospa and romance. It does not fit the young generation who does not. " He also explained that cakes and chicken, which had been consumed hard for the unfamiliar US culture, have now lost their specialty because they have become everyday food.
