[emilysturdivant]

Don't worry! I understand the difficulty of over-analyzing something that doesn't necessarily have much significance. Unfortunately, since this is an analysis so I have to treat it with importance, but I will try to represent that I'm using this possibly inconsequential item to look at more essential cultural trends.

Does the Japanese relationship to Kit Kats or other originally Western products have anything to do with them being originally from the West? Have the Western elements been weeded out of the product because consumers dislike the associate or are the Western influences valued and enhanced? Or does no one care?