{"id":3109,"date":"2009-09-20T12:45:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T19:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2009-10-22T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T10:45:00","slug":"halloween-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/halloween-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1010330.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1010330-800x681.jpg\" alt=\"hello kitty japanese jack-o-lantern pumpkins candy japan\" title=\"hello kitty japanese jack-o-lantern pumpkins candy japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"681\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1010330-800x681.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1010330-250x212.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1010330.JPG 1057w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I lived in Japan a couple of decades ago nothing was done for <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/tag\/halloween\/>Halloween<\/a>&#8211;no decorations, no costumes, no trick-or-treaters, nothing. It appears times have changed.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think trick-or-treating has caught on yet, but a flyer went up in our neighborhood for a Halloween costume parade (early in October&#8211;not on Halloween!) more than a week ago. The stores are already well stocked with Halloween decorations and goodies even though we are barely midway through September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1010331.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1010331-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"vampire mickey mouse witch minnie mouse japan halloween\" title=\"vampire mickey mouse witch minnie mouse japan halloween\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1010331-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1010331-187x250.jpg 187w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1010331.JPG 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where else in the world, but Japan, can you find Hello Kitty Halloween goods and vampire Mickey Mouse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I lived in Japan a couple of decades ago nothing was done for Halloween&#8211;no decorations, no costumes, no trick-or-treaters, nothing. It appears times have changed. I don&#8217;t think trick-or-treating has caught on yet, but a flyer went up in our neighborhood for a Halloween costume parade (early in October&#8211;not on Halloween!) more than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[219,159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}