The price of chocolates has risen in Japan due to poor cacao bean harvests ... In a separate Intage survey conducted in ...

Back in the 1960s, the Japanese chocolate company Mary's ran an advertising campaign that redefined how people celebrated St Valentine's Day. "Women declare love with chocolates on St. Valentine's ...

Called "honmei-choco", this tradition has existed since the 1950s, with the importation of Valentine's Day after the Second World War. But be careful, not all chocolates are equal. In Japan ...

Former Environment Minister Tamayo Marukawa is not winning any hearts by potentially violating the election law for giving chocolates to senior ministry officials for Valentine’s Day. The ...

As the shop was filled with shoppers getting ready for Valentine’s ... times more expensive than chocolate bars I usually eat. When I carefully peeled off the Japanese-language label on the ...