Part time workers, however, are not so particular. Employees' sense of obligation may be so strong that they consume only the beer and other products produced by their conglomerate's affiliates. Whereas in the West engineers from different companies might be friends, this is far more rare in Japan. There is also the case of Japanese corporations, which has one of the lowest rates of laying off or firing employees of any industrialized nation, and employees reciprocate this loyalty through their personal habits.

' Giri choco' is a specific term referring to the obligation of close colleagues or associates to provide Valentine's Day or White Day chocolates to each other even if they feel no romantic feelings (although Valentine's Day is a Western tradition that wasn't imported to Japan until relatively recently and White Day is a holiday invented in 1978 by the National Confectionery Industry Association in order to sell twice as many confections each year). It is marked by an unwritten but no less real perceived balance of 'giri', whereupon unusually large gifts must be reciprocated. Giri may be seen in many different aspects of modern Japanese behavior.

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