[AmericanInTokyo]

I have one for you.

Mitsukoshi Department Stores

Seriously.

If we expanded the list to add Japanese retail outlets HERE IN JAPAN, your list of firms allowing "Christmas" << クリスマス >>　 here would go on and on and on for many, many pages.

In so many years of either living here or visiting here, I have NOT seen one instance of "Happy Holidays" except for the first one about one week ago near Tokyo. Same goes for "Seasons Greetings" in terms of large public store signs, as I recall.

I heard "Oh Night Divine" fully blasting on a PA speaker at a local "7-Eleven" shop just last night as I was getting a soda; when I walked in it was in the middle of blaring "The Night...when CHRIST was born".

Can you imagine at a 7-11 in Christian America? An ACLU or C.A.I.R. lawsuit would be right around the corner.

--AiT, Tokyo (Merry Christmas!)

[jackibutterfly]

"I heard "Oh Night Divine" fully blasting on a PA speaker at a local "7-Eleven" shop just last night as I was getting a soda; when I walked in it was in the middle of blaring "The Night...when CHRIST was born".

Just to let you know, the song is "O, Holy Night". Merry Christmas! :-)

[GATOR NAVY]

I don’t know, that sign at the bottom is advertising a “Holiday Lunch Set”... ;-)