What is the Halloween season like in Japan? What does Japan smell like around that time? 🧹🐈‍⬛🎃

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The film "E.T." was released in December 1982 in Japan. It became a huge hit, breaking Japanese box office records. There was a sequence in the movie where a ten-year-old boy has the alien wearing a Halloween costume and takes him out of his house and into the woods. It was very charming. It made an impression on the Japanese audience. This was the beginning of the Japanese people's knowledge about the American Halloween holiday. It is said that Halloween became more of an event in the mid-1990s. A major turning point was when Tokyo Disneyland held a Halloween festival in 1995.

There is a arcade downtown in my city. It is a typical shopping district in Japan. In the last ten years, many American-style shopping malls have sprung up in the suburbs of cities all over Japan, and the old downtowns have seen less customers. So the neighborhood committee of the downtown in my city holds frequent events to attract families on weekends and holidays. They also hold a Halloween festival every year. As a result, at this time of year, parents and children stroll through the arcade streets as if it were Disneyland. Last year it was not held because of the pandemic. I wonder if it will be held this year.