Japan: My darling wife, I love you! · Global Voices
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Blogger at Prism Cafe [ja] comments on news about an event organized by Japan Aisaika Organization (日本愛妻家協会 lit. Japan Organization of Beloved Wives) yesterday, the 29th of January, when in the middle of Hibiya Park, in central Tokyo, hundreds of husbands took the microphone to shout their love to their wives.
The blogger also comments with interest and curiosity about the project “Hug Time on Beloved Wife Day” that is going to take place on the 31st of January, from 8:09 p.m, when Japanese couples are invited to hug each other on a newspaper used in this way [pdf, jp] as a “hug mat” for the occasion.