Universal Studios Japan kicks off Halloween season
Entertainment ( 21 )
OSAKA —
Universal Studios Japan in Osaka on Tuesday night kicked off its Halloween season which will run through Nov 3. Special guests for the Halloween parade were “talents” Jun Komori, Nana Suzuki and Lie.
The girls danced to lively Latin rhythms. Komori, who used to be a model before getting married, said she would like to come to Universal Studios once she has a family.
The parade will feature special guests each weekend. Becky is also scheduled to make an appearance.
Japan Today
Order by Time Order by Popularity
21 Comments
Login to comment
1
Noripinhead
Here we go again. Halloween begins at the beginning of September in Japan. And Christmas will start the day after Halloween.
0
sakurala
Ahhhh....Becky! Noooo!!!! And here I thought it would be good ol' spooky fun, but instead I see they are featuring my nightmare!
1
Scotman
Hallow'een is NOT a season. What they are doing at USJ and similarly Disneyland is NOT hallow'een. Stealing the name and calling it so doesn't make it so. I wonder if anyone attending these charades has any inclination as to what Halloween actually is.
-2
melguy
All Hallows' Eve and the Christmas of times past have almost nothing to do with the crass vulgar commercialism that is the raison d'etre of the modern "festivals" Halloween and Xmas. Just like Mother's Day, which was invented by a greeting card company wanting to sell cards, and Japan's White Day, invented by Japanese confectionary comanies! As for the Japanese versions of Western festivals, they are truly strange, but no less commercialized.
1
Farmboy
Latin rhythms always get me into the Halloween spirit.
0
Laguna
Past tense? Do you mean that it's already over?
Is she not going to come to Universal Studios when she's working there?
That paragraph makes no sense at all.
0
Farmboy
Laguna, It started on Tuesday and will continue until November 3.
0
Serrano
Bout time!
Does Lie ever lie?
1
Serrano
"Hallow'een is not a season"
It's a season all right, but it's not spelled with an apostrophe. :-D
0
tideofiron
Oh please, as if the Japanese are defacing a sacred holiday. Halloween is nothing more than a chance for kids to go out and get candy in North America. They can do what they want with it. Christmas, on the other hand, is another matter though it has indeed lost much of its real meaning "back home" too.
1
BurakuminDes
Aww c'mon! Becky-chan is welcome to come trick-or-treating at my door...
2
Foxie
We haven't had news about Becky in a long time. I am relieved now and can be at peace. So, where will they burn the witches this year?
2
Foxie
So, with Halloween becoming another season, Japan has 6 seasons now. Sugoi!
0
malfupete
ah silly season again.. I'd say Lie looks the best
0
GW
I liked Japan better in the early 90s when halloween still hadnt been discovered for explitation of the masses here, ah the good ol'days
0
tomatoflight
Wow, Nana and Lie! Stunning
-1
sf2k
Huh? Hallowe'en is an end of October festival. You dress up as a dead person to not be haunted by th ghosts who walk the night. Usually a fun party. I love cooking pumpkin seeds. The date at least is a 1000 year old pagan festival.
This announcement reminds me of Japan having Oktoberfest in July. Another insane change.
This is pretty annoying. What is the point of co-opting holidays from other countries if you change the date and intentions? Other countries who also take in holidays from other places don't change the date or intention so wildly.
It would be nice if Japan could respect something
0
sf2k
In Canada anyway Hallowe'en except for the candy isn't much of a commercial holiday. It's one spent with friends and family and follows Canadian Thanksgiving earlier in the month, making October about harvest, appreciation and family. Black, Orange, Red and Gold colours like those of the changing leaves. The fall colours are always inspiring. Kinda like hanami but without the picnic.
Amazingly and thankfully it's not anywhere close to the commercial industrial nightmare like Christmas has become. It's actually almost like a holiday is supposed to be. Then from Nov 1st onwards starts the Christmas shopping ads.
So for me the contrast to this Japanese season appears quite clownish and uneducated, sorry. There was a lot more to offer than this.
0
Serrano
makiminato - Good thing the local kids didn't also learn that there was one night in the year they could soap up neighbors' windows.
0
mokgohan
OK folks. Time to chill. Japan isn't bastardizing Halloween any more so than North America has been, starting a few hundred years ago and running through to the present. Check out its true history and you'll see very little today that have to do with the festival of Samhain. Most of the images and symbols we associate Halloween with have just been integrated fairly recently if you're going to look at it in historical terms. The thing that they do get? It has, and hopefully shall always remain, a party. Nothing wrong with that. Oh, and as for any commercial exploitation that some of you might take offense to? You kids'r cute.
Back to top