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Originally Posted by Sashimister
Thanks for the great explanation. I'm quickly leaning towards the 5,000-yen range.
I'm not even known as an incredibly generous gift-giver over here, but I guess I would look like one over there. Making her feel indebted is the last thing I want to do. I was getting ready to go and look in Takashimaya or Isetan, but now I'll probably opt to check Don Quijote first.  |
Ha ha! You can do better than Don Quijote, but I will be honest, it is hard for me to think of what a @23 year old woman would be interested in.
I have been to a couple weddings in Japan in the last few years, (and am anticipating a couple more) and for me the sheer volume of gift giving is brutal. I understand the meaning of 結婚貧乏 (is that the right term?)
I have hosted several exchange trips between high school-age students and elementary school-age students to Japan. Usually the Japanese kids would come in winter, then we would go visit in summer. Without fail the host parents in Japan would spend hundreds of dollars on gifts for the students and their families even though the American families sent comparatively paltry gifts with the Japanese students home. This often led to desperate phone calls to me: "They bought my son a Nintendo DS and all we gave them was a block of cheese. What do we do?!?"