Kit Kats in Japan

flavours of Kit Kats for sale, including green tea flavour, visible bottom right.
A variety of exclusive Japanese Kit Kat flavors on display in a store in Osaka, Japan.

There have been more than 300 limited-edition seasonal and regional flavors of Kit Kat chocolate bars produced in Japan since 2000, many exclusive to the country.[1][2][3] Nestlé, which operates the Kit Kat brand in Japan, reports that the brand overtook Meiji Chocolate as the top-selling confectionery in Japan from 2012 to 2014.[4] The company's marketing campaign, which partnered with Japan Post to sell the bar in 20,000 post offices, won an award in 2010.[5] The campaign encouraged associations of the product's name with the coincidental cognate Kitto Katsu (きっと勝つ), translated as "You will surely win",[6] and could be mailed as a good luck charm for students ahead of university exams.[2]

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