The trick to know at Disneyland is one time the afternoon parade might start over by Small World and the evening parade might start near the front gates, and the next day it will switch. We didn't realize this, and caught the afternoon parade as we were heading to It's A Small World, and a night we decided to sit under the Christmas Tree and thought we could video the parade coming right at us, wrong! The parade came from behind us. Oh well!
If I remember correctly the Magic Kingdom in WDW has the Spectromagic parade at night. So the regular parade runs in the afternoon and the light up parade is at night.
In Disneyland, since the Electric Light Parade is over at DCA, then DL can run their parade twice (as long as the park is open late enough).
I saw that you are just back from Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea. I am so jealous. I have entered Regis and Kelly's February travel trivia contest that sends winners anywhere they want to go in the world. I picked the Mira Costa Hotel at Tokyo Disneyland. I haven't been selected yet....but here's hoping!!!!