-St.Valentine's Day-

Hello.

Today, I’m going to write about St. Valentine’s Day in Japan.

In Japan, usually girls or women give the chocolates to boy or men. If it is near of Valentine’s Day, many girls start to find sweets recipe. Some girls make by themselves and some girls just buy the sweets that are already rapping beautifully. In my opinion if they don’t have many people to give the sweets, they buy the sweets instead of making.

There are three types of the name of gifts. One of them is Honmei chocolate that gives to a lover from woman. Honmei means the favorite in Japanese. If a girl likes someone, and wants to say that she likes him, she gives him Honmei chocolate. It is also same to couple. If the girl friend gave to her boyfriend, it calls Honmei chocolate. We usually say this one in shorten; Honmei.

The next type of name of the gift is Giri chocolate that is given to a man who the girl wants to say thank you. Giri means obligatory in Japanese. Usually women give it to their classmates or teachers or bosses. There is no existence of love between them. We call it in shorten; Giri choco.

The third type of name of the gift is Tomodachi chocolate that give to women’s friend, and it is women for women. Tomodachi means friends in Japanese. Recently, Japanese woman prefer giving Valentine’s gift to female friends to give to men. I also prefer to give to my female friends. We usually call it in shorten; Tomo choco.

The fourth type of name of the gift is Gyaku chocolate that gives from man to woman. Gyaku means opposite in Japanese. In Japan, it is rare that man gives to woman, because the form of Valentine’s gift is woman to man. The man got Valentine’s gift, usually gives a return gift on March 14^th that called White day in Japan. In Japan there exist White day, that’s why giving a gift man to woman is rare. If a man gives the gift of Valentine to woman on Valentine’s Day, it means that he loves her. The shorten name of it is Gyaku choco.

We call the gift name adding chocolate, but it doesn’t matter if it is chocolate or not. It is just a form of the name of the gift.

The last time that I gave Honmei chocolate was when I was elementary school student, so I hope that I will have someone to give it as lover as soon as possible… :)♥ haha

-Diana-