The cover of Nippon 1 Volume 1 December 1924 issue.

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Learn how the Dutch secretly celebrated Christmas in Edo era Japan.
https://dl.ndl.go.jp/view/download/digidepo_11570904_po_NDL-Newsletter233.pdf?contentNo=1&alternativeNo=#page=2

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Imagine the disappointment of waking up on Christmas morning in 1923 to find that Santa had left you a tin of powdered milk!

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1913 Christmas Day newspaper illustration of Santa Claus.

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Santa Claus visits Japan in 1919.

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A rather scary looking Santa in an advertisement for Cadbury's cocoafrom the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper of December 6, 1919.

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From the morning edition of the Tokyo Asahi newspaper of December 23, 1911.

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Santa Claus in Japan from Kodomo no tomo
子供之友 (Children’s companion) 1914.

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