The Japanese have adopted many Western customs (Christmas, Valentine's Day etc.). Since Halloween was not widely known when I was little, I didn't have any Halloween experiences in my childhood. I liked wearing fancy dresses, just like many other girls, and I would have enjoyed the opportunities to dress up as a princess very much. Halloween is becoming more popular nowadays, probably more for commercial reasons. You see many Halloween candies and chocolates sold at stores. Halloween special events are promoted at Tokyo Disneyland and Universal Studios Japan (in Osaka). Unfortunately, I don't think many people have a chance to make Jack-O-Lanterns (kabocha-chouchin), because the big orange pumpkins in North America are not commonly grown in Japan (though I found some for sale on the Internet!).
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hi! happy haloween…
so no problem with carving . for this haloween she and her family dressed to be a eru teru bozu, her son 4 years old very happy to be a teru teru bozu even he sweapy 
what a sreamious haloweeh here 
i’m indonasian, but working in japanesse coorporate. many of my friend is japanesse and indonesian married with japanesse. i do saw they celebrate the Halloween in my country with other excpactriat. my indonesian friend who marrie with japanesse man also carving the big pumkins, she doing so neat (maybe beause she love to made o bento
I went to Tokyo Disneyland with my girlfriend yesterday and I was very surprised to see how many people there were dressed up with some really great costumes!!
Saroma-cho in Hokkaido is famous for hotate and kabocha. The kabocha is the small green varity. But Saroma-cho also has a kabocha matsuri the first weekend in September. It features the orange pumpkin familar in the US. The orange pumpkins are grown mostly for cattle feed. But for the festival hundreds are carved for jack-o-lanterns and a prize is awarded for the largest orange pumpkin grown (more than 100 kilo). The festival combines halloween and Cinderella themes. Great little festival.