Japan's workplace Valentine chocolate-giving tradition waning

The "tradition" was forced from the beginning, so it is not surprising that it is dying out. Workplaces with good relationships between people have many other excuses to demonstrate appreciation without having to make it gender based and on a fixed date.

Took long enough! It was, and for many, still is an asinine tradition. Not to mention the countless number of guys who dont pay it back on "White Day".

If you want to give someone a Valentine gift, more power to you, just dont do because people make you feel obligated.

Called it:

https://japantoday.com/category/features/food/mister-donut-has-heart-shaped-gourmet-donuts-for-valentine%E2%80%99s-day-1

In the coming days, be prepared for an onslaught of how Japanese women feel "burdened" by Valentine's Day....undoubtedly written by Western feminists or feminist-brainwashed Japanese columnists.

Instead of celebrating it, they will always make it sound like a burden for Japanese women....while strangely being quiet about "White Day".

In the coming days, be prepared for an onslaught of how Japanese women feel "burdened" by Valentine's Day....undoubtedly written by Western feminists or feminist-brainwashed Japanese columnists.

Instead of celebrating it, they will always make it sound like a burden for Japanese women....while strangely being quiet about "White Day".

If you’re worried about not getting any chocolate, just buy some for yourself.

If you’re worried about not getting any chocolate, just buy some for yourself.

If you can't admit that I'm right in my post, just admit it.

In the coming days, be prepared for an onslaught of how Japanese women feel "burdened" by Valentine's Day....undoubtedly written by Western feminists or feminist-brainwashed Japanese columnists.

So, can you demonstrate the statistics cited in the article are wrong? because if not then there is no brainwashing happening, women in Japan are just not interested in participating in the tradition and are sensibly abandoning it without need for anybody to misrepresent a terribly clear situation.

Japanese men should also abandon White Day and spend only on themselves and treat themselves well.

Japanese men should also abandon White Day and spend only on themselves and treat themselves well.

To the despair and multiple complains of nobody ever. Men not having any "duty" to buy cookies in reciprocity for forced chocolates at the workplace is not the tragedy you think it is.

Japan has a habit of taking in foreign customs. And in some cases, like Valetine's Day has become warped. The concept of 義理チョコ is ridiculous. Hope it dies a quick death.

Valentine's Choc Day was invented by Willy Wonka.

as well as bringing "obligatory" chocolates to colleagues and others

Whoever started this is just sad. Find someone special to give you chocolates, rather than obligating a stranger to give you one.

Could Japanese be will be finally waking up to the brainwashing of chocolatiers’ marketing?

Death by Chocolate.....

https://www.godiva.co.jp/shop/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=brand_main&utm_content=img0000_lp0001_text0025&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=brand_main&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAh6y9BhBREiwApBLHC15UsRLfNvIlZdbLYdci0XoSj3iwDCH6wL8f9PP1ywL2fCFTvn0BfBoCBCwQAvD_BwE

I love to exchange chocolate on valentines day, its was sadly lost for some years with the pandemic need for a working from home necessity.

However the shackles are off, go for it. friends, colleagues etc.

Look its fun,

Next, the tradition to buy a 3 months worth of salary engagement ring should also die a quick death. This is one of the most retarded Japanese indoctrinated traditions when proposing somebody. It might sound like a joke, but the decline of marriages in Japan also point to this nonsense custom.

It use to be Roses but it got too expensive, then chocolate came along and again it got too expensive, next Candy or Nuts and it will get too expensive , Nothing is the last alternative and it never gets too expensive.

With the way things are today, a girl could give chocolate to a guy at work ("giri" choco or "honmei" choco) and he could claim sexual harassment. I don't think it is such, but considering what else gets classified as harassment, it's not a stretch.

I don't care who gives me chocolate. I'm eating that stuff up!

My Japanese ex taught our son that during valentines day dont expect to recieve chocolates instead buy a rose and give to the girl you like. So every year I recieve a rose every valentines day.

Or they could make Valentine's Day a bit more like it is in the West w/ a nice night out for dinner, a movie, a home-cooked meal and a present (of any kind) for the person you like - going from either boy to girl or vice versa.

Valentine's Day is one of the busiest days of the year for many restaurants in the US so it could help local restaurants and not just confectionary companies.

It's good seeing a long-unpopular tradition with a silly name dying a slow but well-deserved death. Only chocolatiers will care.

SpeedToday  09:07 pm JST

Or they could make Valentine's Day a bit more like it is in the West w/ a nice night out for dinner, a movie, a home-cooked meal and a present (of any kind) for the person you like - going from either boy to girl or vice versa.

I fully agree. But that does sound like heteronormativity.

Japanese men should also abandon White Day and spend only on themselves and treat themselves well.

That’s fine! White Day wouldn’t even exist if not for (Japanese) Valentine’s Day:

White Day was first celebrated in 1978 in Japan. The National Confectionery Industry Association started it as an "answer day" to Valentine's Day on the grounds that men should pay back the women who gave them chocolate and other gifts on Valentine's Day. (Wikipedia)

If there is any brainwashing going on, it’s by the National Confectionery Industry Association and chocolate companies. The point is no one should feel obligated to give chocolates or gifts to anyone.

DanteKH Today 08:05 pm JST

Next, the tradition to buy a 3 months worth of salary engagement ring should also die a quick death. This is one of the most retarded Japanese indoctrinated traditions when proposing somebody. It might sound like a joke, but the decline of marriages in Japan also point to this nonsense custom.

Want to know why you got so many downvotes? Because what you wrote is true. The misandrists and the simps think it's ok for women not to spend money on men but can't handle it when men don't want to spend money on women.

Double standards.

enmaai Today 08:49 pm JST

My Japanese ex taught our son that during valentines day dont expect to recieve chocolates instead buy a rose and give to the girl you like. So every year I recieve a rose every valentines day.

So your ex perpetuates misandry, sexism and double standards? Because the boy is not supposed to expect anything from girls but he should be the one giving to girls?

I pity him.

Let's see if any of you are brave enough to teach your daughters to give to boys but don't expect anything in return.

But that does sound like heteronormativity.

And yet, that's what Valentine's Day is all about. It's an event for normal people. (I shortened it for you so as not to waste bits, bytes or troglodytes.

An imported pathetic western custom is dying..

GOOD!!..

So your ex perpetuates misandry, sexism and double standards? Because the boy is not supposed to expect anything from girls but he should be the one giving to girls?

I pity him.

Let's see if any of you are brave enough to teach your daughters to give to boys but don't expect anything in return.

Thats on you, too bad I don't have a daughter.