KFC entered that landscape in 1970 through a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation. The brand’s early years in Japan were steady but unremarkable. Fried chicken was a novelty, not yet a ritual.

Kentucky Fried Chicken has become a massive hit in Japan during the Christmas season, with lines wrapping around the corner and generating enormous sales. Japanese YouTuber Yoko Ishii gave Fox News a ...

*(CNN) — Almost every year since she was a child, Hokkaido resident Naomi has looked forward to her family’s traditional Christmas meal: a KFC “party barrel” brimming with salad, cake and lots of ...

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Forget the figgy pudding! The fried chicken chain has been a holiday staple in the East Asian country since the mid-1970s Emily Krauser is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been at PEOPLE since ...

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Almost every year since she was a child, Hokkaido resident Naomi has looked forward to her family’s traditional Christmas meal: a KFC “party barrel” brimming with salad, cake and lots of fried chicken ...