{"id":28353,"date":"2021-02-12T18:11:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T09:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/12\/japanese-lose-taste-for-valentines-obligation-chocs-giri-choco-under-covid"},"modified":"2021-02-12T18:11:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T09:11:40","slug":"japanese-lose-taste-for-valentines-obligation-chocs-under-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28353","title":{"rendered":"Japanese lose taste for Valentine&#8217;s \u2018obligation chocs\u2019 under Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing numbers of women ditch giri choco custom of \u2018forced giving\u2019 of gifts to senior male colleagues<\/p>\n<p>Shifting gender politics and the coronavirus have combined to spell the possible end of the Japanese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/valentines-day\">Valentine\u2019s Day<\/a> custom of women giving chocolates to male colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, women are expected to buy gift-wrapped chocolates for the men in their working lives \u2013 usually senior colleagues and others who have helped them during the course of the year \u2013 as part of a tradition called <em>giri choco<\/em>, literally \u201cobligation chocolates\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/12\/japanese-lose-taste-for-valentines-obligation-chocs-giri-choco-under-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing numbers of women ditch giri choco custom of \u2018forced giving\u2019 of gifts to senior male colleaguesShifting gender politics and the coronavirus have combined to spell the possible end of the Japanese Valentine\u2019s Day custom of women giving chocolates&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,646,88,78,1115,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gender","category-japan","category-life-and-style","category-valentines-day","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28355,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28353\/revisions\/28355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}