Day 73 - 5:31pm, 14 March 2019
This was once Albert Einstein's birthday, but these days in Japan and East Asia, it's known as White Day - the answer to Valentine's Day. Whereas women gave gifts of chocolate on 14 February, men are supposed to reciprocate a month later by gifting (white) chocolate, supposedly two to three times' the value of the original gift - sanbai gaeshi. Unsurprisingly, this tradition was begun by the chocolate industry, no doubt as was the widening of Valentine's gift-buying away from just romantic love to incorporate courtesy and social obligation. Obligations all round, hardly the stuff of true love.
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