4. You are appreciative of her gifts.
“I didn’t know he’d already gotten a case for his phone, so my gift turned out to be a duplicate. ‘Yay, now I have two!’ He didn’t mind at all,” recalls one Japanese woman in her late teens. Gift giving is an integral part of Japanese culture, and she takes a lot of time and effort to select a gift for you. Even if the gift turns out to be something you already have or don’t want, first and foremost, it’s important to show your appreciation for the trouble she went through to get you the gift. You can even ease her embarrassment by adding, “I can never have enough of these!”