Gift-giving rules for Japanese dinner host

10/18/2015 9:43:30 AM

Inviting someone to dinner at home is sufficiently unusual in Japan that there’s not much in the way of etiquette here, as people typically entertain by going out to eat. But as in the West, you’re not going go wrong with wine or flowers. “Western” (grape) wine is the easy option, anything you’d drink at home will do fine as a gift. If you opt for flowers, avoid white flowers and chrysanthemums, since both are associated with funerals; a premade bouquet from a flower shop will be OK.

I probably wouldn’t bring dessert, since your hosts will most likely already have prepared something, but a gift that you don’t need to eat on the spot (chocolates etc) would also be totally fine.

As always in Japan, the packaging of the gift is at least as important as the contents, so you’ll get extra brownie points if you purchase your gift at a name-brand department store (Mitsukoshi, Matsuzakaya, etc) and get it gift-wrapped there.

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