Celebrating Japan Style

A few people who commented on my post for the Holiday Cooking, Blogger Style post asked about celebrating in Japan.

This is a picture taken of the food at Bailey's birthday last year. There are lots of finger foods including fried chicken, shrimp, tempura, cheese and little smoked sausages. The birthday cake is of one of his favorite Japanese characters- Anpanman. For my husband's family, at least, these are typical foods for Christmas as well.

Christmas is usually celebrated by families with young children or young couples. The New Year's holiday is probably more widely celebrated. Typical foods for New Years are ozoni and osechi. I will try to post some recipes later.