Japanese women also like chocolates on Valentine’s Day

As Valentine’s Day approaches, there’s a lot of talk in Japan about giri choco, the “obligation chocolate” that Japanese women give to platonic male coworkers and friends, and honmei choco, the chocolate they give to men they actually like romantically. However, a recent survey from Japanese confectioner Lotte shows there’s yet another type of chocolate woman would like to hear about more often: gyaku choco.   photo credit to: https://nextshark.com   As part of a broad survey on Valentine’s Day chocolate celebration  (which collected responses from 2,400 male and female respondents between the ages of 10 and 69), Lotte asked women who would received gyaku choco how they felt about it, and their response was almost unanimous, with 96.1 percent...