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Hey anons, my Japanese boyfriend’s parents want to give me a kimono.. Basically, my boyfriend (who I’ve been dating for a little over three years) is Japanese and for the past few weeks I’ve been visiting his family in Japan.
Now the other day my boyfriend and I were exchanging gifts for Christmas (small thing, nothing major) and his mother calls for me and says she has a gift for me. I thought it was going to be a small thing but nope, she wanted to give a kimono. I was absolutely shocked because of how amazing it looks and I know they are insanely expensive.
I asked her why she wanted to give this to me and her reply was that I was so nice and kind and my boyfriend liked me a lot so she wanted me to have it. Also she said she wanted me to have something to wear to the coming of age day (my boyfriend turned 20 this year, I’ll be 21 in three weeks) but I’m confused because I don’t think foreigners take part in those and even if they did, wouldn’t a rental kimono be fine?
Basically I don’t know why they would have given me a gift like this, I know I shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth but I’m wondering why they would give me a gift like this and whether I should accept it.
Does anyone here any experience with buying used electronics from suruga? I'm thinking about buying an MP3 player because it's so cheap. Would it be a waste of time emailing them to ask about the approximate battery life of the product in question?
In Japan, meeting the parents is taken very seriously and is considered a sign that you two are serious partners, practically considering marriage. They seem to think you will be his future wife and really like you, so they want to gift you something very nice to make a good impression.