Love Your Wife Day helps men open up to romance ...

Japanese men, not unlike their Irish counterparts, can find romance hard, says Jonathan de Burca Butler . So they created Love Your Wife Day to help men express their love for thier other halves

In a park in Tokyo a man in his sixties takes to a small open stage. Behind him is a garland of pink tulips shaped like a heart.

Being January it is cold and there are few onlookers. “We have been married 40 years,” he tells those who will listen and, he hopes, his wife.