Families cook special pies, and children color eggs by boiling them with onion skin in the same saucepan. The onion gives the eggs a deep golden color. Like in China, New Year is the most important holiday. The family gathers around a traditional meal and goes to the Shinto shrine. Shintoism is the main religion in Japan.
Children also receive a little money.
Christmas is not as important and is celebrated among friends who go out to nice and expensive restaurants. Children decorate a Christmas tree, eat a Christmas cake, and Santa Claus brings them presents. For the holiday, children decorate their bedroom with a traditional warrior helmet and hang fish made of cloth on their windows. They also prepare traditional dumplings. For a week in March, people put costumes on, eat and dance in the streets where bands play music.