每日新闻播报（February 15）

Small heart-shaped cookies with pink frosting. [Photo/IC]

>V-Day tradition ditched 女性要送男同事巧克力? 日本情人节风俗受抵制 Japanese women are pushing back against a tradition that dictates they must give chocolates to male colleagues on Valentine's Day, with growing anger at the practice of "forced giving". Until recently, women in the workplace were expected to buy chocolates for their male workmates as part of a tradition called giri choco – literally, obligation chocolates. Men are supposed to reciprocate on March 14 on White Day. But there is growing evidence that giri choco is falling out of favor. For a growing number of people, the pressure to avoid causing offence by spending thousands of yen on chocolates for coworkers is becoming intolerable. A survey found that more than 60% of women will instead buy chocolates as a personal treat on Feb 14. More than 56% said they would give chocolates to family members, while 36% would make the same gesture toward partners or the objects of a crush. Keeping on the right side of colleagues, however, was furthest from their thoughts, with just 35% saying they planned to hand out chocolate treats to men at their workplace, according to the poll by a Tokyo department store. 日本女性开始抵制每年情人节必须给男同事送巧克力的传统，她们对这种"强制送礼"习俗越来越不满。一直以来，日本职场女性要为男同事购买"义理巧克力"，这已经成为日本的一项情人节传统。收到巧克力的职场男性则要在3月14日白色情人节回赠礼物。但越来越多的证据显示，"义理巧克力"已经变得不受欢迎。为了避免冒犯同事而花数千日元购买巧克力相赠，让越来越多人无法容忍。东京一家百货商店的调查发现，超过60%的女性将在2月14日这天购买巧克力犒劳自己，超过56%的女性表示将把巧克力送给家人，36%的女性表示将送给伴侣或意中人。和同事搞好关系是日本女性最不关心的，只有35%的女性表示她们打算送男同事巧克力。