Santa Claus puts in an appearance at the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo hotel on Wednesday as part of an event to promote the hotel's line of Christmas pastries and cakes that go on sale on Nov 1.
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Santa Claus puts in an appearance at the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo hotel on Wednesday as part of an event to promote the hotel's line of Christmas pastries and cakes that go on sale on Nov 1.
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dbsaiya
You gotta be kidding me! At times, Japan is ridiculous...
Moonraker
The build-up starts for something that never really happens in Japan. Yet this is somehow so apt too.
philly1
Jeez Louise. We haven't even got to Labour Day. Oh well. Shoganai. Why not bring out all the holidays at once and have them all year? Anticipation? Waiting? Marking time? Fully savoring something that comes but once a year? What's that in a swipe & click world? Oh, and while we are at it, why not bring out the blue tarps and start drinking now? Why wait for sakura? Heck, if we're going to make everything meaningless and screw symbolism over, why not have a Sakura Santa in pink?
SenseNotSoCommon
Santa's suit looks like it's from Daiso. Classy, Mandarin Oriental Tokyo. Very classy.
HaraldBloodaxe
I like Christmas.
When it's done properly.
HaraldBloodaxe
they enjoy it every much as bit as you or me
No doubt. Sitting in an office while your kids are at Daycare sounds really festive.
paulinusa
Santa needs a better tailor.
Elizabeth Heath
It. Is. September. Any shop that starts pushing Christmas this early should be boycotted. Absolutely moronic.
cleo
For a month in winter, yes, reasonable. Starting in September, Santa before he's had any mince pies to fill him out a bit and without his snow boots, Noooo.
lucabrasi
@Pautovsky
Meant to write " two forty-five minute sessions".
Not quite the same.... ; )
ifd66
And they couldn't even be bothered to make the snowman out of white chocolate. Who has seen a brown chocolate coloured snowman - particularly in September?
Camman80
What the?! Is that early, slimmed down Santa? Where's the KFC? What's with the snowman with no eyes?
YuriOtani
Halloween stuff is making its appearance in America. Guess Japan has the jump on them
papigiulio
Next year or the year after that we will see xmas decoration in the summer.
DaDude
Hong Kong based hotel group....
Kapuna
Stores should just leave their Christmas, Easter and Halloween stuff, up all year.
Jeff Ogrisseg
Since when does any self-respecting Santa wear Oxfords? Somebody got lost on the way to the mall...
Kurobune
People haven't been leaving Santa cookies and milk a lot, have they ?
presto345
Lost in a lost world.
Paustovsky
Ha Ha. One sensei called in sick this morning. I bet he doesn't know he's getting paid in fried chicken.
lucabrasi
Don't knock the gig. A friend of mine gets flown in from Canada every year for a month every winter to do it at a local department store. He gets put up in a very nice hotel, fed and watered and paid over 50 man.
For that he has to do two forty-five sessions every day.
Paustovsky
@lucabrasi, 45 sessions every day ? sounds a pretty tough gig to me. I hope he looks more santa than the dude in his brogues above.
Alistair Carnell
Oh no, Harald is doing his Winston Smith impression, after being released from room 101 . Don't let them grind you down.
Yubaru
Damn I was off by one month! I figured October. (Santa should be carrying either a pumpkin or valentine too!)
smartacus
Harold
There is no "proper" or right or wrong way of celebrating Christmas. Everyone celebrates it in their own way. For me, it is a spiritual way; for others it's dinner with family and friends; for others it is about charity. The Japanese have their way with their Christmas cakes, KFC, romantic dinners and illuminations and they enjoy it every much as bit as you or me or anyone enjoys our way.