Of course, Halloween is western, so traditionally it never existed in Japan.

But, like other holidays, it's crept and crawled over.

And people have taken it into their hearts in their own way.

Now, as you'd expect from the country that invented cosplay, dressing up for Halloween has caught on in a big way.

Not just scary costumes, but any kind of cosplay characters and dressing up; there's parades and parties.

And in places like Shibuya, everyone on the streets is dressed up.

If you go to TokyoFashion.com and search for Halloween, there are so many amazing cosplays.

Trick-or-treating hasn't really caught on; however, the Japanese Mafia⏤that's the yakuza⏤do open their doors and hand out bags of sweets to children!

I can't imagine the Godfather doing that!

And when people do go trick-or-treating, it's very, very organized.

You sign up to a group, and you get a map showing you which houses are participating.

And just so you know you're in the right place, they put up Halloween decorations outside.

Sometimes you pay a fee to join in, and the money's shared out between the houses to pay for the sweets.

And I've even seen advice saying that it's ok to just give out a couple of regular sweets.

Because some people had been going way over the top and wrapping up fancy gift bags to give out.

For some people, Halloween is seen as an excuse to go wild and be irresponsible.

And the morning after Halloween last year, the streets of Tokyo were covered in litter and fake blood.

Now this is really unusual and surprising because in general, Japanese culture is usually about being really respectful and thinking about others.

And usually, there's no litter on the streets at all; it's really clean.

So the morning after, everybody felt guilty and came out, cleaned up the streets, and took pictures of themselves cleaning, and posted them on the internet.

So, what else happens on Halloween?

In Yumenoshima Park, that's literally Island of Dreams Park⏤best park name in the world⏤they have a pumpkin patch.

And they bring the pumpkins in from north of Tokyo for kids to play on.

They have a pumpkin rolling race and a competition to see how far you can spit a pumpkin seed.

Burger King have a pumpkin burger as a Halloween special, or go for the Pumpkin Bomb, with 10 slices of pumpkin.

Here's an advert, "Heavy Pumpkin: 500% more pumpkin".

Last year at JS Burger Cafe, they had a Ghostbusters theme, with a black burger⏤which, in Japan, is nothing new, really⏤a marshmallow cream sundae and monster cream sodas.

At Sanrio Puroland, there's cute food, Halloween stuff, and costumes, and it's all much more cute than scary.

And you can get these adorable Halloween treats: a Pumpkin Pudding Kit-kat⏤there were cheesecake and bake-able versions⏤I tried one, and it was really creamy.

Krispy Kreme did Krispy Skremes!

And this year, they're doing Mad for Monsters doughnuts.

Mister Donut always make cute Halloween doughnuts as well.

But why's Snoopy there?

This year they've teamed up with Hello Kitty.

How cute!

Cute ice cream sundaes from Baskin Robbins.

Witch's apple Puccho.

And Halloween Pocky!

Strawberry Pocky, with a witch on.

Pumpkin Pocky.

And cookies and cream panda Pocky, but the panda's turned vampire, with vampire teeth.

And Halloween is the same: Halloween.

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