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White Day
I'm hunkering down and doing my big Pre-Valentine's Day File Review reading tomorrow.  Sometimes I feel like my desk exploded and scattered folders onto it, and then the folders had babies and created more stacks of folders.

Of course, it's all of you getting your applications in, and I hope you've all done your foxtrot or waltz victory dance for sending those off(see previous posts).  Now you can think about more pressing things, like finding that candy heart that perfectly expresses your feelings.

When I taught middle school in Japan, we did some classroom exercises and I helped my students make little Valentine cards for each other.  That was definitely a fun activity.

Interesting note: women in Japan give men chocolates on February 14th.  Men reciprocate by giving (white) chocolate back on March 14th, called White Day.






Published Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:50 PM by moyj

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# re: White Day @ Thursday, February 09, 2006 10:07 PM

Yes, I think its really weird in Japan valientines day is women giving the men gifts. Maybe thats why my father never got my mom anything. Haha, she still throws a fit over that one!

Koya

# re: White Day @ Sunday, February 12, 2006 1:19 AM

Sounds like a chocolatiers' conspiracy to me. How did this form of celebration evolve?

Shozo

# re: White Day @ Monday, February 13, 2006 3:54 PM

Well, Wikipedia says that it was started in 1965 when some fancy Marshmallow maker decided to make it a marketing day for Marshmallows.

It's actually interesting to see the rise and spread of various "Western" holidays in Japan. For instance, Halloween is not a big celebration over there , but on Christmas, everyone orders fancy little cakes (for around 25 USD) and eats fried chicken. True story.

I smell a future cultural anthro article out there, for you aspiring scholars.

Jason

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