If I am visiting Japan during the Bon Festival, should I give "gifts ochugen my hosts?
I read that during the Bon festival in July Japanese people give gifts called 'ochugen. As a visitor to the country, should do the same? It would be seen as a good gesture, or a little ridiculous? And What about business partners?
'ochugen' gift are usually sent between people who know each other personally. Brings back memories.
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Gifts $125 Over the past two thousand years, Western legal systems have had to alter some of their most basic principles in order to regulate the giving of gifts. This is a study of how legal concepts from the marketplace have been reshaped to accommodate a fundamentally different type of social practice. Richard Hyland examines the law of gifts in England, India, and the United States, and in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Gifts also surveys the extensive discussion about gift giving in anthropology, history, economics, philosophy, and sociology. In addition, Hyland offers a critique of the functionalist method in comparative law and demonstrates the benefits of an interpretive approach. |
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