A recent Jiji Press survey has shown that 57.4 percent of people in Japan eat something special for Christmas and that about half of such people buy take-out food.
The proportion of respondents who said they have a special meal to celebrate Christmas every year came to 33.8 percent, compared with last year’s 33.6 percent. Those who said they have such a meal almost every year accounted for 23.6 percent, down from 24.7 percent.
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