My Cherie Amour

[Tokyo, February 9. Image via Getty]

Japan’s sweet shop Goncharoff chocolatier puts the finishing touches to animal-shaped chocolates at Takashimaya department store’s Valentine’s Day event ‘Amour du Chocolat‘ in Tokyo on February 9, 2009. Women in Japan feel the need to give chocolate to their boyfriends, work colleagues and teachers on February 14 as a social obligation more than a sign of love. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)