The element of established of a foreign culture from the comparison between Christmas and Halloween in Japan. Why Halloween dose not establish in Japan.
Thesis: Halloween is not established like Christmas in Japan, because it has many negative images, the definition is vague and content is special.
Introduction
In commerce facilities of city, there are many events all year round. Many people often are overly susceptible to marketing ploys which are like Christmas and Halloween. Moreover, these events create a special atmosphere which influences people who get excited. Various festivals overflow at the present age without religion and community. In commerce, the festival improves the consumer buying power and becomes splendid priming that activates the market. Therefore, festivals in the current city are related to the consumption culture and have accelerated commercializing, making to the event, and making to personal. Take a particular note of foreign festival which like Christmas and Halloween. The kind of festival used to be different culture, when these festivals came to Japan from foreign countries. However, after it, a new meaning and the function were gradually given to those festivals then became festivals that were established to people and new. This paper will show you, the element of established of a foreign culture from the comparison between Christmas and Halloween in Japan.
Christmas was introduced to Japan in early age, and after the war Christmas widely spread to people. Firstly, introducing about origin of Christmas and America’s Christmas, then this show you how developed Christmas in Japan. Present age, everybody knows date of Christmas is December 25th and the day is for celebrating to born Jesus Christ. However, at first December 25th was not date of boring Jesus Christ, and the day was a festival for heresy. In 4th century, December 25th was became a anniversary to celebrate boring Jesus Christ. Christmas in America, since colonial period it was celebrated by the immigrant in Europe. Christmas is still the biggest events of Christianity and the day is a chance to deepen the exchange with the family, relatives and friends. On the other hand, The United States has developed Christmas as a spectacular event of the consumption culture. For example, customs of Christmas presents Christmas cards and images of Santa Crouse were made for merchandising during Christmas in America after 19th century.
Now, let's see how Christmas was introduced and developed in Japan. Christmas has been officially and informally celebrated as a religious event since the Christianity is transmitted among Christians in Japan. After the war, Christmas when the color consuming cultural that the Japanese was recognizing was strong started, because Christmas started as a sales promotion event of the gift caused by the department store.
However, it had infiltrated only people of one of the period of prewar days. In 1950's it widely spreads rapidly to a Japanese society. The reason was the charity work by the United States occupation army and Christian group. This is a cause that it was established as a custom of America by their activities in Japan. At first, an American culture was a far-off yearning, but it has changed along with a rapidly advanced come-back story after World War II. In that age, “America equal affluence” Japanese had this image, but It came to obtain the image by money gradually and the Christmas event also strengthened the character as the consumption event with a strong amusement element. Christmas was related to the racket of the pleasure resort in which it centered on the adult male and generalized to in 1950's. Then, a religious color was thinned at Christmas. After 1960’s corporate employee who have a blast in bars returns to home with Christmas cakes and trees. This means, style of Christmas events was changed with decorating the house with the Christmas tree, enjoying themselves over the cake and the dish in the family, and presenting the children the present. Christmas was infiltrated the Japanese culture as a home event by reflecting the home life that became rich at the high economic growth period and the rise of family oriented way of life.
Conclusion
Until this conclusion, this paper has done time series proof and the comparison analysis about peculiar development of Christmas and Halloween in Japan that deeply related with an American culture. Christmas and Halloween are outpatient festivity, but those are different the character and it is difficult to be established the festivity that taking Japan into the consumption culture mechanism is difficult as a commercial event. Even outpatient festivity is similar to Japan traditional event, and a superficial similarity, the outpatient festivity based on the context of a different culture is made native in present age Japan, and it doesn't spread. It is easy to understand that Halloween that offers the shade of meaning and the event that looks like the Bon event has not infiltrated Japan.
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