{"id":1685,"date":"2022-03-12T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/japansuki.asia\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2023-01-17T14:19:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T05:19:05","slug":"white-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/japansuki.asia\/en\/white-day\/","title":{"rendered":"White Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m sure everyone is familiar with Valentine&#8217;s Day, but have you heard of White Day? This is a unique holiday to Japan that takes place on March 14th, one month after Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/japansuki.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/white-day.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1701\" width=\"580\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/japansuki.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/white-day.jpg 318w, https:\/\/japansuki.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/white-day-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In western countries, Valentine&#8217;s Day is a day to celebrate love. I think Americans celebrate all kinds of love &#8211; family love, love for your friends, but most of all it&#8217;s romantic love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Japan, Valentine&#8217;s Day is the day for women to express their love to men, and White Day is the day for men to express their love to women. It&#8217;s not only romantic love.  In fact, it is often seen as an obligation to give men something. It&#8217;s very common for women to bring in treats for all the men in their office on Valentine&#8217;s Day for example, and for men to bring something in reciprocation for all the women on White Day. Chocolate is traditionally shared. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/557a0fd3e4b064e7f04db74f\/1455747547688-VHS02H7CFBI3LRUHDDH7\/VDayWhiteDay.jpg\" alt=\"Valentine's Day and White Day: yes, things are different in Asia. \u2014 TOKYOPOP\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems White Day started as a promotional thing after many women complained that they would gift men chocolates, but it wasn&#8217;t reciprocated. So, if you are a women in Japan who feels left out on Valentine&#8217;s Day, wait until White Day. Hopefully you&#8217;ll be treated to something special!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure everyone is familiar with Valentine&#8217;s Day, but have you heard of White Day? This is a unique holiday to Japan that takes place on March 14th, one month after Valentine&#8217;s Day. In western countries, Valentine&#8217;s Day is a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/japansuki.asia\/?p=1685","footnotes":""},"categories":[74,139],"tags":[775,97,377,378,439,774],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-lifestyle","tag-celebrating-love","tag-japan","tag-japanese-culture","tag-japanese-holidays","tag-valentines-day","tag-white-day","en-US"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/japansuki.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/japansuki.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/japansuki.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japansuki.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japansuki.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/japansuki.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/japansuki.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japansuki.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/japansuki.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japansuki.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japansuki.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}