Christmas

Christmas, as an annual holiday, is also celebrated in Japan - without the religious connotations and an emphasis more on the Christmas Eve than the Christmas Day itself, though. Central to it are giving and receiving cards, presents and the typical Christmas cake to others to spread a feeling of happiness. The Japanese Christmas and its customs appear in the works of Gosho Aoyama a couple of times as a central plot element.

Plot overview

The Santa Claus of Summer plot overview

The whole plot, manga and anime alike, doesn't happen on that day, but, as the title says, revolves around recreating Christmas in the Summer in the hopes of getting Keisuke Hara to remember the number code he entered to activate the killer satellite.

Yaiba plot overview

Immortal Kaguya (Yaiba Manga: 162)

This chapter was released on December 9th, 1992 and featured a Christmas-themed cover.

Detective Conan plot overview

Murder inside Café Poirot Case (Manga: 981-983, Anime: 885-886)

Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama want to visit the Christmas lights in the 4th block of Ginza, but don't managa to do so because of a murder happening at Café Poirot Heiji gets involved in. Ran Mouri accompanies Kazuha to Ginza instead to see it.

Links

• Christmas in Japan - Christmas Around the World - whychristmas?.com

Trivia

• Due to the Detective Conan Floating Timeline Christmas is celebrated more than once.