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Unique Valentines Day Celebrations
Valentine’s Day is a day synonymous with heart-shaped chocolates, bouquets of roses, and grand romantic gestures. Yet the plot twist in Japan is that the girls take the reigns! It’s tradition for women to gift chocolate to the men they admire or have feelings for, reversing the Western norm.
This means men’s hearts flutter with anticipation as they hope to receive that sweet, chocolatey confession of affection. There are two types of chocolates given. First is the ‘Giri-choco,’ which is obligatory chocolate given to male friends or colleagues, and ‘Honmei-choco,’ which is the ‘true feelings chocolate’ reserved for that special someone.
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