Halloween in Japan

halloween is huge in America, my own family and my neighbors used to work on a haunted house in our front yards. Kids are generally well behaved and just want to show off their costumes and get some sweeties.

No halloween in Germany! At least, not really. Some modern kids do it, and then there's a bunch of discos that have all kinds of themed parties, but apart from that, no one seems to care - we have Fasching for dressing up, though.

trick o r treat
http://www.figma.jp/pdf/figma_halloweencos.pdf

no trick or treats in my place.

I don't Halloween. Would love to try it out though.

Don really celebrate it but enjoy the smaller sized candy available at the stores :P have to keep lights off to deter trick and treaters. Lol!

Last year was probably the first time we had someone knock on our door to ask for sweets, it's not a very big deal here really except for those looking for something to celebrate/get involved in.

My family and I don't celebrate halloween in any case and I'm fine with it.

I missed my last night in California
My colleagues took me to Knotts Scary Farm, where the next day i took off heading home.

Do Japan has such thing as halloween theme park as in US?

It is said that Halloween came from Mexico "Dia de Los Muertos"

O would like to see Japan at Halloween time... I'd like to see some of the haunted houses, since I am more into the Japanese perspective of horror, rather than the U.S.'s.

I wish it didn't look weird for a 21 year old to trick or treat. :(

My family and I celebrate it every year though I don't go out and trick or treat ^^;

I never went trick-or-treating. My dad never saw the point in the tradition/holiday, since it wasn't the greatest of holidays, and meant going round knocking on strangers doors begging for candy. Easier to just buy the candy lol. Me n my brother had fun scaring the trick-or-treaters that came to our house though.

No Halloween here, just minor people from UK/USA/Europe who work here celebrate it.

Guess it is catching on over there...

My "necks of the woods" being the internet and the middle of America, I usually see a lot of Halloween stuff. (Also somewhat due to the fact my father is obsessed with the holiday... ^_^;)

Nope , No Halloween in Malaysia . There are Halloween decorations at Malls and Restaurants but thats just about it .

Would like try it .

Trick or treat is encouraged here...time to wear my cosplay costume!

if we really went trick or treating it will take maybe few hours to cover just 1 flat,cos a flat has too much families already...

so ya singapore doesnt celebrate halloween:(

Well, I for one love Halloween and I love to give out candy to trick or treaters ^_^ It brings back good memories for me and it is something nice for the kids ^^ However, trick or treat in my neck of the woods doesn't actually fall on Halloween(they make it a Thursday evenning so kids have to go to school the next day >_<). However, Halloween gives a me an excuse to dress up as whatever I feel like. This year I am going to my friend's house on Halloween and there is supposed to be an Otaku Halloween party ^_^ I can hardly wait ^_^ Can't wait also to see Halloween in Japan when I get to go there in like three years >_<

Halloween is not a Austrian tradition. Although it was kinda imported here too. I don't care about it.
Halloween in Japan = WTF

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Halloween here means students will go crazy, club parties, and house parties. Along with a random person or 2 on the floor passed out. Not joking i saw a girl last year passed out in front of jack in the box wearing a french maid outfit. she probably lost all credibility that night. lol

i cant stand halloween, i personally see it as being like begging door to door, but i can see why some people like it (free sweets/toys for little kids). Theres not as much of it celebrated in the UK, but they tend to have theme nights in theme parks/nightclubs for it.

Do people trick or treat in Japan?

ooo Halloween, wish had this in here >_<

p/s - btw danny, I posted an item on figure.fm but it didnt show in gundam category, however i can reach my post in my profile, I saw someone's post and dated 21/10 same as he registered D: and me registered 7/10, is there something I missed?

My folks sort of celebrate Halloween...I guess. We don't do anything, but we used to give candies out to all the trick-o-treaters running around. But we moved to a house that's pretty out of the way, so we don't get anyone anymre .__.
;D It's pretty big in Vancouver though.

That looks crazy,
In the good way.

Over in London during Halloween you get quite a few trick or treaters and mischeivous kids with nothing better to do than ask for free money while pelting eggs at you. I'd love to cosplay for Halloween but I'm worried no one will recognize who I'm dressed as :S

starting to see alot more halloween parties here. but trick or treat-ing are still rare, mostly in expat estates. Have not seem anyone in the local Public housing estates doing it. * it will scare the shits out of the old folks*

Halloween exists here in Australia, but I wouldn't say its something a lot of people celebrate.

We decorate but dont do much more than that... If I have to work though I'll throw on ears or something like that and hand out candy to kids. But I haven't actually celebrated Halloween in years

I think Halloween celebrations waned here for a while but I think they are starting to come back. For Halloween this year some friends and I are going to go camping at a State Park that is not to far from where we live. The campsites are in a creepy hollow and they have Halloween trick or treating along the camp sites, pretty neat. I am going to get a couple of pounds of dry ice and see how much fog we can create for everyone :3.

Halloween is huge here.I'm going trick or treating since I am still a child.Not gonna cosplay like I have for the last few years though.

Halloween is big here too ^^.
In fact I'm going out this year with a bunch of my friends, I love dressing up!

Candy candy candy...

The only time I've really celebrated Halloween was when I went Trick-or-Treating that one time when I was a small fish. That Halloween I dressed up as a schoolkid! -wears school uniform-.
Still, I've attained many candies that night.. -twisted evil laughter-

I particularly don't like halloween. I don't know why It just seems like an opportunity for some people to do evil deeds @_@.

well hear in derry nireland we have the bigest halloween in europe the partys start around 4pm and last till about 5-7am tiss all good crack thow ^_^

Goin to Vegas for Halloween. That'll be...interesting....

Halloween use to be fun though the cold weather ruins it when you have to wear a coat over your costume. Now its just annoying and a bit on the dangerous side. It seems some children get angry at houses that don't hand out candy to the point of lighting them on fire. A more common occurrence is children being robbed of their hard earned sweet loot.

I used to go trick or treating, wearing just a mask. Then the next day at school you would always hear people bragging about how much money they got. My friends and I got mostly peanuts (real ones), fruit and lots of candy lol.

Some houses go all out for Halloween; I don't really know how many will go all out now since the recession though.

the moment I saw that Dracula, I thought of the Turn A guy that got punched by Gold SUMO

Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year...well I don't dress up as anything, but scaring people here and there is pretty fun...

Considering it's my birthday. I love going out and having a good time. Going to NYC this year to check out the festivities.

In Brazil we celebrate it with costume parties, but trick or treat.
It's not that popular...

I heard in Mexico they make sugar skulls! Now that IS awesome!!

Halloween is by far my favourite holiday. (^_^) Last year I was able to sew a full size Oogie Boogie costume, next year I'll make 2.0. The only downside about here is that they try giving out "healthy" candy, if I didn't want the sugar I wouldn't go. lol Those gaijin make us all look bad, it's sad to see that we are stereotyped by how a bunch of stupid drunks act. =/

I love Halloween... the day after it, most of the candy are on sale :D

Halloween in San Francisco is freakin’ nuts! It is practically a holiday here.

There's only two holidays in the entire year that people in America really get into the spirit and go all out. One of them is Christmas and the other is Halloween. Everything else is pretty subdued in comparison. I really do enjoy the decorations this time of year. ^_^

Used to dress up and go out when I was younger. Now I just chill at home.

Nice dance!!

Halloween for us is just another day of drinking, just the girls are all wearing less. If you don't suit up Danny, what do you do? Grim reaper? Zombie? Storm trooper zombie? Oh and about the drunk naked gaijin... Yeah, to hell with those guys.

halloween isn't really celebrated around these parts
okay, there are the occasional few odd kids during that time, but nothing like other countries

They call Halloween the "Harvest Festival" due to a few people being uncomfortable with the concept of Halloween. (Comes with the super-conservative hometown)
D: Silly gaijin. Disturbing the peace is not good. (Especially when you "represent" your race by just existing as a foreigner in Japan.) Hopefully, it won't happen again...

Nice halloween used to trick or treat with my bro back in canada. I wanna see how they trick or treat in japan though since they do a lot of cosplaying and they have neat cosplay outfits hehe

aw,.. damn you international copyright restriction....

Always wondered if and how Japan celebrated Halloween. Here in SF its people everywhere getting candy. My neighborhood though is one the quietest though, its like a ghost town. That's why when I go with my little brother and sister, we go to the more lively districts in the city. I usually see many people in groups in random costumes (not anime related though), along with some haunted houses and the like. A couple of years ago we tried going to Robin William's house to see if we could see him (of course we didn't see him) but there was hoards of teens all over the place. There were some people standing in his front gate giving away glow things. I don't go Trick or Treating myself, but my little bro and sis do that for me. Lol.

We Filipinos celebrate Halloween by going to the cemetery and spending some time (some people spend the entire day there!) with our passed loved ones. This is what I like about my country; such strong family ties. I like it :D

Will have to wait and see what my 1st Halloween is like here in Japan. I will try to not get my expectations to high.

Lots of folks are hoping we get back to Yokosuka for Halloween. Not for trick or treating or candy....but for the parties and girls. ^^

Halloween's big here, especially in my parent's town. There's a street there full of Victorian houses that all just go crazy for Halloween, so the city actually closes the street to vehicle traffic on the holiday to make it safer for the mobs and mobs of people who go there. It's actually quite fun; it kind of feels like Halloween mixed together with a small con due to the number of non-trick-or-treating adults there.

This year I won't be trotting that street though. My parents' tenth anniversary is on Halloween, so they're throwing a giant party which I am obligated to attend. I'm going as Glinda, Wicked version, and apparently my dad's friend is going as someone from Wicked as well, so this should be cool.

Not so much in Hawaii, at least in Waipahu. But This is my first year in San Francisco, I wonder if it will be weirder. WILL THE HOMELESS BE SCARIER?! D:

Hmmm guess it's starting to get bigger in Japan, but I know it's not really celebrated in Asia because I haven't heard of Halloween until I moved to Canada. Even when I was here I didn't really celebrate it ^^;

Some costumes are really cute, but for the most part, Halloween is a bit of a bother. The doorbell rings too much and my dogs go crazy, I don't look forward to it at all XD

Not where I live. I had to drive out of my way to go to a Halloween party. Because I'm under age, I couldn't drink, instead I drove my friends around from bar to bar. It wasn't too bad. Middle aged men kept approaching me, their breath smelled of beer and cigarettes, made me want to puke. I enjoyed the D.J. Batman, he just stood there rocking his head back and forth looking bada$$.