Man, this hurts to read. Japan’s alcohol culture was already bad to begin with and now this. With the overabundance of vending machines and convenience stores, you will never have a hard time of finding booze in Japan. Also, in some companies, it’s even expected for employees to go out for drinks after work. And now the government is flat-out asking people to drink more. This can’t end well.

I got resolution for them if they want massive alcoholism epidemic, like in XIX century Russia and Poland: propination laws plus mandatory trucking system /s