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A man dressed as Santa Claus broke into the office of a cleaning company in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture and fled Monday after attacking its president and pouring what appeared to be kerosene on the floor and setting it alight, police said Tuesday.
The fire burned about 98 square meters of the second and third floors of the three-story building in which the company, named Sanai, is housed after the incident at around 6:40 p.m. Monday.
Shoichi Arai, the 61-year-old president of the firm who was alone when the intruder burst in, suffered serious injuries with broken ribs and burns on both legs. He was quoted as saying he is unacquainted with the perpetrator.
The intruder, who kept silent during the attack, sprayed tear gas at Arai before assaulting him, the police said.
Clad in the red Santa Claus costume, the man was about 50 years old, 160-170 centimeters tall, slightly overweight and wearing glasses, according to the police, who said they are hunting for him on suspicion of arson and causing injury.
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BigInJapan wrote:After several years, KFC at Christmas almost seems normal.
I did a bit of sleuthing, and it seems that an FG was ultimately responsible for the KFC chicken at Christmas phenomenon.
The following is my own translation from this Japanese dining out related site:
Japanese people do not find it odd that there will be chicken on the dinner table at Christmas.
As you know, eating turkey is the norm, and eating chicken is a tradition in Japan only. KFCJ is established the campaign, "Christmas at Kentucky".
The KFCJ Christmas campaign started in 1974, and they first ran commercials with the message "Kentucky for Christmas". As it spread throughout Japan, this established the custom of eating chicken at Christmas, and not just the customs of cake and presents which were all that existed previously.
The actual origin of the Christmas campaign has been somewhat clarified.
In 1971 or 1972, apparently an FG coming into the Aoyama branch and saying, "I'm having a Christmas party, but as you cannot get turkey in Japan, we're going to do KFC (eat fried chicken) instead", was what started it all.
As many FG's frequented the Aoyama store, the store manager at the time developed the "Kentucky for Christmas" campaign, and after being a hit, it spread throughout Japan.
Screwed Up Eyes wrote:It's not such a strange tradition for me to eat chicken at Christmas, having grown up Down Under, where its midsummer at Yuletide. It was only toward the late '70s/early '80s that I can remember eating turkey at Christmas...
....I wish the love hotel visit on Christmas Eve had've been a Down Under tradition, though. All we got to do was hold candles and sing Jesus songs with a bloke in a bear suit who was a mute.
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