- Saint Valentine's Day in Japan -
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Saint Valentine's Day in Japan
- Does Valentine's day exist in Japan?
- Many Japanese don't have a religion, but we often import a part of another culture from foreign countries. For example, Saint Valentine's Day. Saint Valentine's Day is very famous in Japan, everyone knows this is a day for lovers but...
This is a day for girls.
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Here, this is a day "Girls show her affection to a boy"
Girls give a chocolate to boy who she loves, and then informs him about her feelings.
So boys are may be fidgeting during Saint Valentine's Day, because they might get a chocolate and affection from some girls.
(In general, popular boys get a lot of chocolate but unpopular boys don't get a lot...)
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And if this boy is also loves her, he will answer on 14th March, and they will be a couple.
We call the day "White day" on 14th March.
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But there is an another chocolate that called "義理チョコ(courtesy chocolate)"
This is a gift of chocolate for all of the males.
Girls give a tiny cheap chocolate(around ¥100 to ¥400) to a male friends, coworkers, classmates, brothers, and her father. -
And there is a pitfall here.
There is an unspoken agreement in Japan that... -
When boys get a chocolate on Saint Valentine's Day, they have to give a 3 times more expensive gift on White Day (14th March)...
So some guys don't like Saint Valentine's Day and White Day...
(But it is not a law, so you can refuse if you don't want to do that.)
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So you'd better to make sure about the type of chocolate if you get it for Saint Valentine's Day in Japan.
