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Valentine's Day gets even sweeter with new twist

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From: Daily Breeze
Date: 20030104
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"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well." _ Jean Jacques Rousseau

A teacher learns a lesson.

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Valentine's Day is different in Japan. It's a recent custom borrowed from the West but turned completely on its head, as only the Japanese can do. On Feb. 14, little girls, office ladies and affectionate housewives give boxes of chocolate to their male "superiors" _ teachers, bosses, senior co-workers, boyfriends and husbands. That's right, women give men gifts. As the practice has integrated itself into rigid Japanese social customs, it has even been ...

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