Slowly but surely, an entire nation was convinced that going to KFC was a Christmas tradition. KFC Japan says that Okawara’s story isn’t quite accurate, the Business Insider reported. According to ...

Christmas is fast approaching and for people all over the world, this heralds the arrival of long-held food traditions. But ...

A finger-lickin’ good bucket of fried chicken and strawberry shortcake were not what our former foreign correspondent was ...

In the U.S., Christmas dinner is usually about turkey. But other countries have a very different idea of the traditional meal ...

"The most wonderful time of the year" is rapidly approaching, which means it's time to break out all our beloved and unique Christmas ... tradition in Japan that KFC has special meal deals for ...

Since the 1970s, KFC has become a holiday staple in Japan, thanks to its “Kentucky is Christmas” campaign. In tribute to this ...

Two days before Christmas eve, we received an invitation from one of my friends at Dentsu to join his family at home to bring ...

Half a century since the promotion's national debut, Kentucky is still for Christmas in much of Japan. KFC does a whopping one-third of its Japanese business during the holiday season -- some ...

While elsewhere around the world, Christmas dinner usually means a fat roast turkey or a nice holiday ham, in Japan it’s all about the Colonel. When the first KFC opened in Japan in 1970 ...

In the U.S., Christmas dinner is usually all about turkey ... In 1970, Takeshi Okawara—manager of the first KFC restaurant in Japan—began promoting fried chicken "party barrels" as a Christmas ...