v day in japan

Well Valentine's day has rolled around once again and the stores are full of chocolate and ....playboy underwear? In Japan women are the ones typically giving gifts on Valentine's day. The department stores were packed with women scrambling for boxes of chocolate. It seems it is most often chocolate but there were other strange gifts seen around the department stores such as playboy underwear in a package with whisky. Women will give to co-workers, bosses, friends and significant others but if a woman gives something to a man it can also be seen as and indication of attraction. Apparently in March there is a day men are suppose to reciprocate and this can be the clincher for the beginning of a relationship. I am not surprised women must be the first to indicate; Japanese men are as bad as girls and will sit in the corner and giggle rather than growing a pair and approaching a female. I was contemplating buying for the male teachers but I don't like very many of them so I decided not. Although women are suppose to give gifts on this day I have received a box of chocolates and some bubble bath already today. Yay Japan!