We eat sweets (wagashi). Wagashi are Japanese sweets such as 'Youkan' or 'Anko' and stuff like that.
Of course they do. Everyone in the entire world like sweets. That's a fact.
Rice, fish , noodles. and sweets
they eat lots of candy like lickerish
You may say 'amaimono,' written: 甘いもの
candi is called a-me(In kanji 飴) in Japan. but if you say candi to japanese,they can understand it :)
They often give gifts of food or sweets, because space in Japanese homes/apartments is usually limited, and larger items could pose problems.
In your example, jar of sweets, is the collective noun; other collective nouns are a box of sweets, a tin of sweets, or a shop of sweets.
Japanese sweets were made from 1987-92 http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_value_of_a_Browning_Sweet_Sixteen
チョコレート (cho ko ree to) is Japanese borrowed word for chocolate; however お菓子(o ka shi) is the general Japanese word for sweets, confections.[ee = elongated 'e' sound]
There are a number of websites one can purchase retro sweets from online. One can purchase many retro sweets from 'MyCandyShop', 'We Luv Sweets' and 'Zap Sweets'.
Traditionally the sweets are served before the green tea or matcha. The reason for this is the green tea is very bitter to drink by itself. When you have a sweet or mochi it helps balance the tea's bitterness. The Japanese sweets that are served in tea ceremonies are made from glutinous rice. Sometimes the rice is mixed with a sweet red bean called azuki. One thing you'll notice the colors of the sweets correspond to the season of the year. For spring the sweets are pink to represent the cherry blossoms. A mochi will be wrapped in a cherry blossom leaf.