This year, I’ll be spending Christmas in Japan. It’s my first Christmas outside of the United States and, more significantly, my first Christmas without my family. But I’ll be fine. Christmas isn’t as big a deal here to the general population but it appears KFC is. And seeing how there’s no province, prefecture or state here named Kentucky, KFC seems to take on a different meaning. This is news to me, so I’ll let K. Annabelle Smith tell you about Kentucky For Christmas in this article she wrote some years ago. I’ll be paying attention for the scene she describes on SmithsonianMag.com