Valentine's in Japan (Score 1)

St. Valentine's Day is one among several holidays that have been imported and... altered... by the Japanese. Here, the burden falls almost entirely upon women to supply men with large amounts of chocolate. I'm not too surprised that this was turned into yet another occasion upon which women are expected to service men. Which will make it doubly effective when I serve up a candlelit dinner to my girlfriend on Valentine's Day, and take her to the Nagasaki lantern festival on Saturday. I am gambling a bit on the dinner, though - so far the only western food she likes is hamburgers, and she doesn't like my take on Japanese... As an interesting aside, the Japanese confectionary industry manufactured another holiday in March - White Day. On that day, men are supposed to give marshmellows to the ladies. At work I have made a habit of making s'mores for the ladies on Valentine's Day...