Japan tells young people to drink more alcohol - BBC News
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- Опубликовано: 17 авг 2022
- Japanese officials are asking people in their 20s and 30s to drink more alcohol to boost the country's economy.
Younger generations in Japan drink less alcohol on average, compared to the drinking culture often found in older generations.
A new campaign has been set up by the country's National Tax Agency to find new ways to encourage its youth to drink more often.
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Never have I imagined that a government would want young people to drink more.
While my country government encourage our people to drink less alcohol and beer.
Meanwhile UK establishment says to do and promote more LGBTQ++ activities for all ages!! 🌋🦄🥴🔥💘
Profit over health and well-being as usual from all governments
@@mohamedmaaniu5588 uk is one of those country who doesn't allow underage to drink menaing below 16 in philpined can drink at atleast 12 years old small dose thu
What's the quickest way to cause pregnant teens? Even in the 80's Japan tried and failed to encourage you women to start families. The young women chose careers.
I'm glad to hear that younger generations of Japanese have rejected the obligatory after work drinking culture. No one should feel pressured to consume alcohol. The government needs younger people in charge if this is the best solution the older generation can come up with. Rather disgusting actually.
My mother's ex-boyfriend was an alcoholic. He was not a good person. He was abusive. Personally, because of my expeirences with a drunk, I intend not to touch alcohol, ever. Alcohol destroys people. I prefer to be ready with my sober mind at all times.
@@TommyElijahCabelloReal life of the party
@@TommyElijahCabelloReal that was his fault for not being able to control himself
@@TommyElijahCabelloReal you are right. Alcohol destroys people and family structures. It actually unleashes hell on people. This means that these guys want people in Japan to be miserable and tormented .
@@dylanmurphy9389 alcohol is haram
The country should promote restaurants and bars without directly encouraging more alcohol use. Encouraging the enjoyment of non-alcoholic drinks, food and live entertainment are all healthy ways of supporting an economy, tax revenue and socialization.
They've got a fat tax and discourages a lot of the infamous addictive behavior so I don't get why promoting more gluttony ever would be a solution to anything. There's so many ways to bolster an economy in a way that is safe and beneficial to the people.
You must be great fun at parties!
@@bobjames6622 Drinking doesn't have to = getting drunk!
@@a-walpatches6460 And not drinking does not mean that you are not fun at parties
may be time to start supporting world and planet and each other instead of thinking about money that was simply created for control of humanity. People don't even realise they are not free because they constantly depend on money.
How dare those youngsters for making such responsible choices about alcohol consumption! Who is suppose to drink all the sake and pay heavy alcohol taxes? Do they want to live a healthy life forever?
You say that but a healthy attitude with alcohol is better for a country. You can clean with it, disinfect, use it as deep heat etc. Just because it's become a problem doesnt mean we need everyone to suffer
@@geroutathat No one is stopping anyone to drink tho
Brainless Japanese government can’t think about peoples health.
@@geroutathat
... you do know that alcoholic beverages and pure alcohols are completely different things, right?
@@geroutathat I thought we were talking about alcohol for oral consumption.
This sounds like Japan's millennials and Gen Z are making more responsible choices and doing better self care than their elders and taking hits from the usual boomer criticisms for existing.
more likely they just can't afford booze.
Totally irresponsible! Alcohol has addicted more children, contributed to more sexual assaults, and injured and killed more people than all wars combined. Just say no to drugs and alcohol. No one needs these mind-altering substances, and everyone is destroyed by them.
@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 That's part of it, probably, but not all. Given the boomer proclivity to deny current realities and demean everyone younger around them though, like boomers in the US, I still think it's mostly boomer bs.
yes and no 94, been drinking for 7 years, recently broke the spell.
Still a big part of culture especially here in Australia.....
Gotta remember it's a different culture with different geographic opportunities. Their K-12 you carry firm study responsibilities, then your college age years your expected to either devolope literal surgical precision or apply your natural born skills to work for the greater good of society but after you reach what's considered middle age your allowed to let your kids love you and when your hitting advantaged age your a child again except you have less responsibility then you started with
A "young" Japanese kid living in Tokyo here. Drinking has been LONG considered harmful (or even "dumb") for the last 20-30 years, which is just quite not long enough to reach the "policy maker generation" who are all 120 year old. Obviously they live in their own bubbles. It's sad.
Your population is in catastrophic decline they need you to get out and socialize have children
@@suckit758 yeah man you know what im actually in the process of migrating to Canada with my girlfriend so they can suck my ass haha
@@suckit758 It's going to happen to all countries when they reach a certain point of development. Plus, climate change is going to make the lives of anyone who are children now worse. Why would you release a child into a world that's slipping into a climate catastrophe and furthermore is not being pushed against thanks to capitalist power?
I think it's universal that old people are generally pretty stupid, for all the wisdom they allegedly have.
@@TommyElijahCabelloReal In the long run it is your only real purpose
Money above people's health
Totally irresponsible! Alcohol has addicted more children, contributed to more sexual assaults, and injured and killed more people than all wars combined. Just say no to drugs and alcohol. No one needs these mind-altering substances, and everyone is destroyed by them.
economy*
Japan is a horrible shithole. Seriously.
Drinking has been such a cultural thing and the new generation isnt keen to follow it. Good for them
It's like a US employer's wet dream.
I visited Japan and was surprised to see so many inebriated men on the trains. My young friends also recount to me that it's tradition for the older workers to force them to drink, after work, basically; because to refuse would be considered disrespectful and frowned upon...unreal that the 'government' is advocating drinking amongst the younger generation. That's one way of destroying citizens' lives, no?
Control, first. What happens next, destruction, is just another consequence.
Ahhh I remember my first inebriated train ride in Japan. I woke up to a sleeping salaryman on my shoulder. I didn’t want to wake him so I went back to sleep myself
It's probably cause the ones who made the advocation are also part of the older workers
Alcohol doesn’t destroy your life, your own inability to control it does that
They are destroying people's lives. Quite a common trend these days. Started with the house arrests for an imaginary stalker. The best option these days it to close your ears. These people want to destroy human beings.
I was stationed at a joint military base in Japan for three years. The Japanese women I worked with would tell me how awful that mandatory after work drinking was for their husbands. They would say that the husbands would stumble in after midnight every day fully drunk and obnoxious and angry.
The men had no choice- if the boss says we’re going to drink you have to go. They also said that this is the time when bosses let their employees openly express their stress and grievances, and it is not held against them if said during the drunk fest.
I taught English to youngsters and the pressure from the parents to be so perfect and successful was maddening.
School was Monday through Saturday and the youth I taught were tired, angry and scared-scared of not living up to their parents expectations. High pressure society from my observations.
they need a cone and relax like australian
It was until the 1980s. But even at that time no one forced his colleagues to go out for drinks after work. Their husbands might have said that for excuse.
This must be the saddest news ever... I'd be ashamed if my country tells me do more drinking
Yay, good news for alcoholics
I’d be happy if my country banned alcohol and told us all to smoke more weed.
Weed makes life so much better.
It makes me not care about having to deal with idiots and it makes it way easier to zone out when dealing with idiots 😂
you know the system is rotten when the systems asks you to be a loser.
@@Acheron666 Why would you suggest replacing one drug for another? There's something missing if you can't get by in life without inhaling smoke, drinking or getting high on heavy stuff.
@@Acheron666 you shouldn't need weed for that.
The younger generation is showing that they don't tolerate toxic workplace culture and ideologies, which is amazing.
People here in Japan have been learning that it's nicer to go home and spend time with your own FAMILY than to babysit the old farts where you work all evening, every evening after work. How terrible!
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@@saidhazim2735 oh go away scammer
That’s exactly it , young people all around the world just want to be left tf alone
What about the detrimental effects on liver health along with the social and mental cost of potential alcohol abuse?
bad health increases GDP - hence economics is called "the dismal science."
More work for hospitals and police. A win-win all around!
Totally irresponsible! Alcohol has addicted more children, contributed to more sexual assaults, and injured and killed more people than all wars combined. Just say no to drugs and alcohol. No one needs these mind-altering substances, and everyone is destroyed by them.
@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Japan has socialized Healthcare and put a ton of care into it. Bad health increases GDP in the U.S and Russia while it has minimal impact in China and some areas like Brittain, but careless damages to social wellbeing in areas like Japn or Europe where the taxes go to the people are a pure net negative
@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 China, if somebody doesn't take care of themselves they get thrown to the bottom rungs of society and when a elite who spent their entire life living in soft splendor accidently damages their liver drinking at a social event said person before will just go missing and they'll have new organs before they actually go bad.
U.S either that one person who messed up pays back their surgeon teams tuition while a federal regulator turns a 1000% profit over the supply cost, or a part of the surplus population fertilizes the daisies and the federal government takes a cut from the funeral. Russia just sends all its lower class country bumpkins to war before they start costing anything. The French, Germans, Polish/Swedish and everyone else throw everybody who hits their low point on their shoulder and reminds them of why they need to take care of themselves while the tax payers are happy go take care of the rest until they understand and this applies similarly to the Japanese. And because they all put the effort in to function within society and there all given the love they need, there isn't that many to eat the tax stockpile
"Alcohol - The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."
- Homer Simpson
Oxycodone :)
Good for these young people for not overly consuming alcohol. Alcohol is a very harmful drug.
I wish they had more time. The interviewer cut her off multiple times. Smh.
Young people are more health conscience and decide to drink less. Government wants more money and encourage young people to drink more. Wow, now that’s a caring government 😂
First no sex, now no drinks. Got to make time for more overtime works at the office.
if you only enjoy life by drinking then maybe get help? it's not alcoholic versus workaholic. how about no addictions and living a good, healthy life?
@@butterflymoon6368 not to be rude but I think that will be hard for the average Japanese Citizen to do since they are forced to work for such long hours what time do they have to find and be in a healthy relationship?
Alcohol reduces inhibitions, like the one to avoid unwanted pregnancy- the taxes aren't the only motivation.
Yeah I was thinking that too. It's a smokescrean!
Single motherhood is very much looked down on in Japan. I doubt that’s the motivation.
@@jenesoleil3922 Forced birthers go hand in hand with child marriage and misogynist religious extremists. Baby marriages happen everywhere and only exponentially increase human misery everywhere.
Alcohol related pregnancies are not the type you should want to have. They'd be better off just legalizing weed.
This.
A perfect example of valuing money over people's well being. This is the central problem of captialism, it requires continual growth, it's incapable of just stopping when something is no longer needed or wanted.
Does socialists advocate for hard measures taken in the battle against drugs? Many seem to be for the opposite these days. And wasn't some of the infamous socialist leaders big drunks throughout history?
You can have a mixed capitalist economy and still focus on people's health and well-being. Most of Asia and Islamic countries follow that rule.
Not a problem with capitalism, but a fiat system
Incorrect. In capitalism, the free market decides what should be stopped. In socialism, the government will force you to comply. Lucky Japan is not socialist so there is a choice.
At least Capitalism doesn't have the same cons as socialism or communism
Whereas in the communist Soviet Union alcoholism was rampant as a way to escape from the oppressive regime. All governments need money to operate. To blame capitalism for this hair brain solution is ridiculous.
It’s absolutely uncomfortable for me to encounter the vomit around the stations or on the train.There are so much vomit in Tokyo on Saturday or Sunday morning.
Governments around the world increasingly see their subjects as cash cows, not as people they have a responsibility of care for. The USA, UK (gov health departments working with private for profit companies), sadly now Japan are more than happy to have their people get long term health problems, as long as they can squeeze more cash from them 😭
It was always like that. But people believed their propaganda.
you are 100% right
This is the kind of information we need. Thank you BBC.
Totally irresponsible! Alcohol has addicted more children, contributed to more sexual assaults, and injured and killed more people than all wars combined. Just say no to drugs and alcohol. No one needs these mind-altering substances, and everyone is destroyed by them.
I'll take the occasional humorous and uplifting headline over the usual flood of cynicism any day.
He kept interrupting her and was kind of annoying, but whatever.
All Governments: "We put this tax on alcohol to discourage people from drinking too much. Its for the sake of your health!"
"Wait, not like that!.."
10 years later:
Japan is in the throws of a Youth Alcoholism Pandemic
This actually sounds similar to the problem we have in the states where a lot of states fund significant chunks of their roadways and bridges through cigarette taxes, but younger generations (fortunately) do not smoke as much. Perverse incentive to say the least. But then, we're legalizing marijuana in a lot of areas so I suppose we have a new vice to use for revenue
Fentanyl
Alcohol and cigarette taxes in my country go to fund hospitals and treatment centres, it's insane your country chose roads.
If you view marijuana as a "vice," your ignorant head is still in the sand and you still choose to hold on to the "devil's drug" attitude about a simple beneficial PLANT. Arrogant denial about the proven *natural* benefits of cannabis shows the ignorance of the person looking for approval from like-minded anti-marijuana morons.
People will always use drugs. It may as well be legalised, taxed and regulated.
@@ariadneschild8460 Not really. Can't get to a hospital if there's no infrastructure to get you there.
says alot about a country when the young people dont want to drink and have sex
@Narja probably that young people there are more educated or lonely and depressed af
Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Lol
I rather live in a society where young people don't want to drink or have a family than a society were young ppl hooked on fentanyl and knife other people for 'respect'.
can you just go ahead andbe overtly racist. It's giving me a headache trying to work out which version of subtle racism you're trying to express rn.
@@Chachoes it may be a good thing in the long run, but momentarily it means that there is a lack of hope among the youth regarding their future.
I think Japanese drinking culture in the older generation has a lot to do with expressing one's inhibition in a very "structured" society. While the younger generation are a lot more open, and stuff like chatting/posting comments online already provide a good outlet. Maybe that is why younger generations are not drinking as much?
It doesn’t matter what the government says. Young people will decide on their own. There are many other drinks now a days to enjoy.
They're still bad
They will follow the crowd because that is what they do in Asia
@@aa-zh6wh I see is this way they don't draw themselves looking Asian in anime but draw themselves looking European.
I'm not even Japanese and i don't drink anyway, i can't stand the odor of beer near me and let alone drink it.
I want to be sober all of my life, i don't wanna wake up in the middle of the street or vomiting my entire dinner in my toilet the day after.
Like vodka
I lived in Japan and became a severe alcoholic there. Had to move back to Europe to go into rehab. I cannot believe the government is encouraging more drinking!
Edit: I'm not blaming Japan for my alcoholism. I'm just saying that I became alcoholic in Japan because of the strong drinking culture. Due to the fact that Japan has a two-tiered medical system, I had to go back to my home country, switzerland, to go to rehabilitation. But I did live in Japan for 11 years. It wasn't a vacation...
And addiction isn't all about choice. You need empathy.
Japanese alcoholics are the new trademark.of Japan
Japan didn't turn you into an alcoholic, people always have the choice even in the worst dictatorship the problem are the consequence of those choices and the will to make the right one no matter the cost.
You just need self control. Must be nice being an alcoholic with travel money.
The first three comments above are just plain stupid and ignorant. Japan has always had a drinking problem because of the culture. Now that the Japanese government is telling more people to drink alcohol and promoting alcohol companies, how the heck does anyone expect people living in Japan to have this great ‘self-control’ when alcohol is freely available with the government even actively supporting it.
You'd expect that in England not Japan 😂😂
It's, shameful that a culture that is already struggling with drinking is being encouraged to drunk more.
O shut up nerd
Wasted government
wow, please don't tell citizens to drink more. That is like saying, "take more pain medication"
Never thought I'd see the day where people are actually complaining that the younger generation is drinking less alcohol, world is crazy nowadays.
Probably bribed off by beer companies. Yeah, what a time.
Older people love to cling on their ways, no matter what it is.
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People complain about the younger generations for everything, including being a decent responsible human being. Why would this be any different? Them older generations grew up with lead poisoning and the permanent learning disabilities and behavioral problems that came with it
Isn't excessive drinking bad for your health. 😐
Of course it is. But its a problem when the young people aren't drinking literally _at all_.
@@Solid_Snake88 alcohol has been used as a social lubracant since we've discovered it. Safe to say it helps promote population growth in young adults ;)
@@Solid_Snake88 have you ever been drunk around other drunk woman? (if you're a guy) lmao
@@Solid_Snake88 It's a problem economically. Imagine if you cut in half the sale of all the alcohol in the UK- that is a lot of pennies not going into the country's piggy bank and it is a problem. If young people don't drink then it only adds to the drag of Japan's economy.
@@Solid_Snake88 I belive that drinking culture, the cost of alcohol, and also it's addictive qaulities make it very advantageous over alternative drinks. People love to go out and dance and drink and drink and drink some more- it's been that way since the greeks. Come on - men don't want to compete with who can drink the most orange Fanta.
She really said Oh our people arent addicted they just really like it a lot!
Your a bit too jaded by modern society and don't understand not everything people say contradicts the reality.
I don't think a society built around people who can push a pen to the same standard as a surgeon who pushes a knife suffers from much of a societal problem
It’s been around 30 years Japan has been in stagflation where wage keeps decreasing and life gets harder for younger people. Their national economy is getting worse everyday. now they are inciting young people to drink more to stimulate consommation?? This reminds me of Abe Shinzo’s campaign on the massive use of cardboard in Japan everywhere because his brother owns the biggest cardboard company in Japan.
I thought Japanese lived in cubicles - not cardboard boxes like the U.S.
Yet, the8r citizens are wealthier and have a better quality of life than most developed countries. In contrast, nobody would move to a place like China /India, despite their 'improving' economy.
@@wlsn77 It's called the Trilateral Commission - Fascism continued on.
@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 right? They should be bombing school houses, kidnapping children, and burning the neighbors oil fields until they stop mining them and allowing the dominant military power to mine instead
That'll end facism for sure
@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Life is pain. It's less painful when somebody stronger takes a deep breath, puts on their boots and carries the little ones out of the pile of broken glass and into the green pastures so they can grow their bread and butter
When your country's problem is that the young aren't drinking enough alcohol and so the government needs to step in 😂
国(国税庁)がさらに税金を取るためにやっている謎の政策
わざわざ健康と真反対のことを推奨するのはおもろい
It’s easy to do that if you have disposable income but right now we need to tighten our belt to survive!.!.
Killing one’s employees with alcohol sounds… counterproductive?😕
I mean yeah, alcohol is literally poison. Why else do you think they call it intoxication?
Yeah it does
Another example of a messed up world we live in
Yeah, I feel so sorry for the young people growing up in Japan from being taught at school that being perfect in every category is correct and failing is wrong to having nothing to look forward to once they graduate apart from long work hours at a companies that see them as little more than slaves just to be used not people (longer work hours will definitely make it harder for the average person to consider being in a relationship which is why the amount of births in Japan is falling quickly and the overall population is getting smaller) then when working many workers are forced to come and drink after work by their bosses (and they can't say no as it will anger their bosses because in Japan Traditions it is considered rude not to drink) and now their own Government who is supposed to be helping them is encouraging them to drink even more! The future of Japan looks bleaker and bleaker every day! Soon Japan will start to mirror Societies that are in Dystopian fiction novels (If Japan hasn't already started looking like a Dystopian Country at this point) What a shame Japan, it seems the only thing advanced about the Country now is the Technology and nothing more!
They say they want to encourage more drinking because of the steep fall in tax revenues from alcohol in the last 10 years. But surely there would be savings made in healthcare over the long-term. On the other hand one thing I noticed when I was drunk is that I bought a load of other stuff on impulse - just threw money around. Sober people, in general, make sober choices.
"Alcohol is directed linked with suicide " This is most terrible step i have seen
I started drinking when I was around 11/12 Still my mother died of being a alcoholic and personally it was her choice we gave her help but she decided to do alcohol as it was free thanks to my neighbour who would supply her with the money and it was his entertainment as we would argue with her. Sad thing was I was only around 9/10.
That's unfortunate to hear, I hope you're doing better these days.
So sorry
So sorry for your suffering. It's a plague for a happy family. You lose everything to the burden.
Just legalize weed and tax it. Gee... Alcohol consumption is way too health-damaging and life-threatening.
Weed has many health risks
@@ahmedsaleh9509 Very true,Ahmed,and they are glossed over for the sake of profit and taxes.
@@ahmedsaleh9509 Alcohol use kills ~3 million people yearly; Alcohol use contributes to ~11 million cancer deaths yearly; I don't think weed can come anywhere close to that.
This is the literal definition of short-term thinking.
If this doesn't tell people that the government doesn't care about your health or life...nothing will.
They also work people until they collapse. The country’s mindset is really screwed up.
I'm not from Japan. Or young. But I'd like someone to tell me to drink more.
Drink more!
Yes, drink more...
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water
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"Guys please start having addictions again come on"
Imagine having some of the strictest cannabis laws in the world while also encouraging people to get wasted on alchohol
i know, its quite crazy lol. it seems like most countries really want to market it as heroin sadly…….
glad im from the west🤷🏼♂️
Alcohol = sex = population growth
It makes sense to promote that lifestyle in Japan (albeit, alcohol is a drug.. so I mean wtf) but rather promote social stuff rather than drinking in your small apartment to death.
Drinking too much only leads to vomiting your entire dinner the day after plus not being able to remember anything is a big no from me.
@@AiRPasternak everything in moderation
With the extremely tiring work culture and sky high cost of living, they probably cant afford to drink
But these people better not drink and drive. Think. Don’t drink and drive
why would you need to drive??? Japan - unlike this nearly third world UK where we have railstrikes every other day, ridiculous - Japan has a truly excellent public transport system, not only the trains but even the buses are mostly always on time. Japan doesnt have a drink and drive problem. In larger cities, there is simply no need to drive
Alcohol is more dangerous than people realize.
The Japanese government encouraging alcohol consumption will likely have the unintentional effect of reverse psychology.
It is about the money. Drinking in Japan is insanely expensive. If you go to a bar or a pub, just two or three drinks will cost you about 20 bucks which is way too much for the younger generation who aren't in the juicy tenured positions like the older generation.
@@EvilKris Most Japanese people want to drink with friends, so they do so at bars and izakayas. Bars and izakayas are very expensive, so it is in fact, true. I am sure there are other reasons as well.
@@EvilKris Moved here when I was 20 and in university and have stayed here for over 6 years so I can speak for experience when I say nights out drinking can cost quite a bit.
There are some establishments that offer nomihoudai and those are great. They usually cost 1500-2000 yen per person but they tend to serve watered down cocktails that might get a 100lb female drunk, but might be a bit lacking for heavy drinkers.
Most young people prefer to drink around busy stations (Nanba, Tokyo, Shibuya, Kyoto, Osaka, Umeda, Roppongi, etc.). Izakayas are generally more popular than bars amongst uni students, and those can get pretty expensive. For example, check out the hub menu where beers cost about 600-1000 yen each, and during happy hour they average to about 700 yen each. Other drinks average out to be around 700 yen per glass.
Not to mention most groups tend to split the bill evenly between each person, meaning a night how will cost a minimum of around 3000 yen if you go drinking with friends(minus transportation).
So through my own experience and observations during my student life, nights out on the town are, surprise surprise, expensive for college students. This is especially the case if you are taking ladies out on dates.
There are obviously other factors such as piss poor part-time wages, interest in other hobbies besides drinking, general inflation, lack of friends/ isolation, and an increased attentiveness to health.
That's sad. Trade the health of your citizenry for short term financial gains
Next step is to ban contraception
Figures it'd be a tax agency. Damned leeches. Up here, they don't openly encourage more boozing it up, they just charge a 20% extra tax for buying alcohol. And, now that weed is legal finally, they tax the sheet out of that, as well.
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@@saidhazim2735 What? LOL, go away, whatever you really are.
Tokyo is the most consider metropolis contributing to it being the largest. Drunk people aren't known for consideration. If it isn't broken don't intoxicate it
Not condoning alcohol, but everyone needs a bit of *escape* from being glued to a desk for *8-12 hours* a day... that's not exactly what humans were *naturally* built to do
i dont need alcohol for that
@@angelusvastator1297 some do
It feels a little stupid to poison yourself to escape work. That sounds like suicide, actually. I'm serious, drinking alcohol is basically poisoning yourself. Why else do you think they call it intoxication?
As someone who has lived in Japan, many though not all of my friends did drink. They just didn't drink super frequently. They still weren't opposed to drinking or getting drunk.
ITS so funny its socially accepted much less promoted, alcohol is a dissociative anesthetic with amnesic affects that is neurotoxic even in small amounts.
Japan should ask advise from finnish PM...
They should be turning to different means to boost the economy. There are plenty of other options. Especially with a country that has huge influence politically and economically. They can make plenty of more money with the fishing industry with them having loads of coastline and sea area. Some volcanic areas can also be extremely rich in minerals to help with their technology industry. They can also do what the Netherlands is doing with their farming. There are countless different options than trying to promote people to put toxic substances in their bodies.
Me: Drinks water.
Japan: "I am immensly dissapointed in you."
I am Japanese and live in Japan. But, I didn't notice that Japanaese government is encouraging yourg people to drink more. As long as I know, still young people used to go to drink normally at least until when COVID19 started, and even recently many people go to drink again because people are sicking tired of staying at home anymore and government seems gave up on taking any actions for COVID19 seriously. I live in Tokyo area, and as long as I know, many young people go to drink still. On the other hand, in the rural areas, young people are still taking over the old Japanese culture very well, and they often go to drink, and I don't see any difference from before. I can tell only the difference is that young people who don't join or try not to join parties held by their companies (NOMIKAI) are increaseing because it is not fun at all for youger people. I am a middle age guy but I even try to skip such parties because older people drink a lot and get drunk very soon once the party starts and they often harass those in lower positions including sexual harassment normally. Still Japan has strong confucianism. Such parties are mostly held at Japanese restaurants (IZAKAYA), and used to support not small % of revenuew of those restrants and liquor companies. So, I guess that less consumption of alcohol in Japan is mainly because of COVID19 and somewhat because of less chances having such parties. On the other hand, it seems that young people go to drink with their friends without older people as long as I know. I didn't know the announcement but I guess it is not widely announced well or I just missed... Interesting...
It’s one way to boost the population!
Pretty sure too much alcohol causes limpness and erectile dysfunction. I don’t know how you expect Japan to increase their population if most of them are too drunk to get it up and going, lol. Even if they do, I don’t think most of them are going to reach orgasm.
@@Dovahcrap not sure what your saying right now
@@estimatingonediscoveringthree That Japan promoting more people to drink alcohol is not going to solve their population problem?
For a moment I thought this was a attempt to drive up fertility rate.
Old people upset that their ways are slowly dying.
Those elders encouraging alcohol have now 100 + years (long life expectancy). Maybe we should listen to them ;)
That’s Japan culture. They always drink after work, at home and restaurants. Japanese do drink a lot.
True. It called "Nomikai".
why does the presenter keep talking about excess drinking like the uk isnt famous for that
At least Britain realised and hopefully Irish society will realise the harm of alcohol consumption.
@@mothiurNCL That's true, but Japan isn't a country were prone to having to intervene with. I don't think anybody should be talking, besides medical/social professionals with a degree
@@mothiurNCL Pure probitabtion doesn't work either. We have that all throughout my state and even as a damp village here all it did was increase the value of the bottle, which in turn caused more people to obsesse and drink more when they would have stopped years ago tired of all the hangovers and trouble they get into
Forced drinking at work is the worst thing ever.
Just introduce sober tax, if you drink less than 5 beer or certain amount of sake per day you need pay taxes.
Yeah because their parents were paying $.10 a glass and these kids are paying $10 while their parents made 10 times more comparatively, y’all lost me when you wanted $16 for a six pack of beer.
Lucky. It's $20 a can or $100 a bottle here, where it's damp but not wet
Aha I mean you don't want to end up like us..
At the same time. Drinking correctly and in moderation is healthy for younger people and Thier social life's
*their social lives
problem is how many people don't do things in moderation or in a healthy way - especially when it comes to drinking alcohol.
I wonder if this is to do with fears of population implosion.
I see this in the same vein as asking people to take tobacco or drugs.
Lots of alcohol in a social event leads to a population boom! Which by the way has benifits way better than just alcohol.... Especially if the population is ageing and not being replaced....
Why don't they just triple the price of food and utilities? as favoured by the UK.
They’ll regret this when they have to spend money on liver transplants
Promotes Alcohol but DP for minor Drug offenses, doesn't make sense
Maybe open up the country to tourists, and get more money that way.
Excellent idea.
They should have sponsored visits to England or even better, Ireland!
PMSL. 🤣
Its funny you say that, when Japanese tourists visit Britain, in particular London they expect it to be like a Sherlock Holmes novel or Harry Potter and usually leave feeling utterly disappointed when it isn't..
@@PeaceDweller Just like the Paris syndrome eh
In order to continue the tradition to go drinking to a bar with their colleges after a 12 hours shift, so the suicide rating wont go down. They really cant see what are the most serious problems in Japan?
This is honestly disgusting and advice that would harm many.
its all about money -tax
Distraction lies. There's a reason. Follow the money and the medical
Our govt calls on young people to do many things. Let's go on a trip, buy special products, and drink more. But we wanna raise our wages to do them.
2:05 A ninja casually walking down the street
I don't expect the government to promote or discourage anything. It's up to people to decide their own lifestyle choices.
It's that not simple in cultures steeped in traditions and respect for elders; and I am for respecting elders but, I'd have to make my own choice when it comes to something that could potentially destroy my life.
Maybe the truth behind this “encourage thing” is the low birthrate in Japan.
It’s not a secret, that an alcohol make people more well-disposed for new acquaintances and some types of relationships, which can lead to the birth of a child😏
True but its not the case for everyone also not everyone may be happy they had a child when drunk and may encourage the woman to have an abortion. Also by doing this it makes it seem like Japan really doesn't care about its Citizens and only see them as pawns to order around however they wish and its a really bad look when Japan used to brag about working their Citizens nearly to death which is what caused this whole decling birth rate in the first place because the less free time you give someone the less time they have to focus on other things e.g. being in a relationship or starting a family!
So much disrespect from a TV station where they invite you to give your views then cut you off halfway through. Japanese people would definitely be offended by that.
They should focus on the birth rate and how to reduce toxic work culture but nope.
The plan : drunk Japanese + hotel = more babies.
the audacity of this guy claiming japan has a drinking problem whilst being british is really quite astounding
Yeah, that pissed me off. He also has no idea about the about the genetic deficiency the woman was talking about where some asian people can get dangerously drunk very quickly (like literally hammered after two shots of vodka) because they don't have the enzyme to break down acetaldehyde. Alcohol becomes a bunch of different chemicals during digestion, and this one is basically formaldehyde, and that's pumping around their bodies unbroken.
Your correct, the UK does have a drink problem, this news report however was talking about Japan and not the UK. You can find many news reports about the UK drinking culture if you want to learn more.
But don't be naive to think Japan doesn't also suffer from alcoholism to the same scale or if not, greater, for a number of other reasons you can research yourself.
One does not preclude the other.
Guy used a variety of dumb stereotypes throughout the segment - gross.
Lack of tourist,covid and the younger generation being much more wiser in what they consume.Atleast they arent going far down hill like us in the USA legalizing weed so the government can make more money.
Legalizing weed would be a good thing for Japan.
@@Tommy88- you must be high
@@diggingga6197 he might be high but your tripping if you're problem with individual cities, counties or states in the US legalizing weed is the local governments making money off of the taxes. You do know that marijuana is not legal at the Federal level and it's still completely illegal to have, use or sell in six states and in many individual counties and regions of the other states, right? And if it's legalized it's just a plant - a weed even, so you can grow it yourself and not have to pay any taxes. Legalizing marijuana is good for everyone except law enforcement and the prison system.
@@DennisMoore664 Yeah. Meanwhile, you can't grow alcohol. Technically, you can ferment it, but that takes way more skill then does growing marijuana. For alcohol, you entirely have to rely on corporations to supply you.
@@TommyElijahCabelloReal When you say alcohol I'm guessing you are meaning distilled spirits, but both beer and wine are even easier to make than growing marijuana. All it requires is malt as your base, hops for flavor, water, sugar and yeast to ferment it all. A little basic cooking and a lot of patience and a batch beer will be ready for consumption in about half the time it takes to grow a crop of bud. Wine isn't much different except for some of the ingredients and how long it takes. Even distilled spirits (moonshine) isn't all that hard to make but you do need more specialized equipment and to be a bit more careful since it's more flammable. But none of it requires some Heisenberg dude or other trained chemist to get the cook right.
So if Japan has a version of Another Round? Will the lead be a youth?
That's like telling them to smoke more cigarettes!!