Women give men fancy boxes of chocolate on St. Valentine's Day in Japan. Women give chocolate to their colleagues, classmates, father, and so on, besides their sweethearts. There are two kinds of chocolate which women give to men on St. Valentine's Day in Japan. Giri-choco is chocolate which women give men as an act of duty. Honmei-choco is homemade chocolate which women give sweetheart with all their heart.
Many women give sweetheart homemade chocolate with all their heart into it.
And women give him something else as presents along with it. The March fourteenth is called White Day in Japan. It is the day when men give women something as a return of their St. Valentine's Day gifts. White Day is peculiar to Japan and the custom is new. When my parents were young, there wasn't White Day .