Japan has an uneven track record when it comes to celebrating Western holidays. While??only recently,?. Annually,?women buy premium chocolate and , generating half the country¡¯s?chocolate business being spent in February.

(Yes, that¡¯s mostly women. Men repay the confectionary favor on a month later.)

While there are mountains of high-end choco tugging at?the heart strings, many vendors are trying to stand out with unique packaging and offbeat designs. Here are a few tasty examples.