Tomorrow is St. Valentine's Day. As you already know, St.Valentine's Day in Japan is a bit different from what it is primarily overseas.
It is the day only a woman can confess her love to a man with a gift of chocolate. Why it should be “with chocolate”? One of the Japanese chocolate manufacturing companies promoted this campaign back in 1958. Since then, this day in Japan has been getting popular year after year among every woman. A young woman may send a box of chocolate to her “special boyfriend” or “true sweetheart” to confess her love.
Nowadays this is getting more popular and common among their families as well. I will hand out a box of chocolate to my husband and my son respectively and they are happy and kind enough to share a gift together with the rest of the family members.
The “Chocolate Sale” for St.Valentine’s day is getting more fashionable and fancier every year at every place from the department stores, shopping malls to convenience stores and all. It’s really fun to see all those diversities of chocolate gifts at the stores. And it is so tempting for me to get some of these in the name of “St. Valentine’s Day”.
I’ve got two from Godiva for my husband and my son. I can’t resist getting two different kinds of KitKat from a convenience store. St. Valentine’s Day is no more only for lovers but for family members.