Love and chocolate capitalism: Smash Valentine's Day rally in Tokyo.
A specter is haunting Japan -- the specter of chocolate.
"Japanese men decry 'love capitalism' during 'Smash Valentine's Day' rally in Tokyo." ("Japanese men" means a handful of dudes.)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-14/japanese-men-protest-valentines-day/6101788
"Members of 'Kakuhido,' which translates as the Revolutionary Alliance of Men that Women Find Unattractive and claims on its website that 'public smooching is terrorism,' walked through the busy Shibuya district waving banners with slogans demanding an end to Valentine's Day. ... 'The blood-soaked conspiracy of Valentine's Day, driven by the oppressive chocolate capitalists, has arrived once again.'
"Valentine's Day is a huge money-spinner for the confectionery business as women are traditionally expected to buy chocolates for the men in their lives -- from partners to work colleagues and bosses. ... Kakuhido was founded in 2006 by Katsuhiro Furusawa, who began reading The Communist Manifesto after being dumped by his girlfriend and came to the conclusion that being unpopular with the opposite sex was a class issue, fueling his anti-Valentine message."
Too bad for the chocolate capitalists that chocolate-giving isn't nearly as popular in Japan as it once was. People of all countries who are unpopular and do not care for public smooching -- UNITE!
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