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Japan has quite an ... interesting relationship with KFC in general.
There's an amazing urban legend in Japan that suggests the ghost of Colonel Sanders placed a curse on the Hanshin Tigers baseball team after fans threw a Colonel Sanders statue into a river in the 80s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Colonel
Someone eventually found it at the bottom of the river, prompting another strange moment
On March 8, 2024, KFC Japan held a burial ceremony for the statue
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I can vouch for this, I queued with a colleague inside a roped off line outside a KFC on Christmas Day in Tokyo, alongside a life-size statue of the colonel in santa garb. Surreal.
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@Regal
I only recently learned that KFC at Christmas is a thing in Japan. Some KFC marketing person realised that the only thing Japan really knew about Christmas was that it was a big deal in America, and a food they thought of as American was fried chicken, so now everyone thinks you have KFC at Christmas time.
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