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OriontheGreat · Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 13 Location: San Francisco, CA

Hello everyone,

My brother just turned 19 and he is thinking about popping over to Japan during his winter vacation to have some fun. He gave me a call telling me about all of the boozing, tail chasing and hell raising he was planning on doing. I congratulated, him, but then mentioned that he might still be under age in Japan.

I checked it out and discovered that Japan's official minimum drinking age is 20.

So here's my question . . .

Is the minimum drinking age enforced as rigidly in Japan as it is in the US or will he still be able to go out to bars and clubs, buy his own alcohol and enjoy the nightlife properly?

canuck · Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 1921 Location: Japan

OriontheGreat · Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 13 Location: San Francisco, CA

So they never check ids at bars and clubs? Sounds like Europe.

callmesim · Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 279 Location: London, UK

I've seen students in school uniforms buying cigarettes and alcohol at the convenience store.

kdynamic · Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Posts: 562 Location: Japan

minimum drinking age enforcement??? Laughing

No, he will not have a problem.

TK4Lakers · Joined: 06 Jan 2006 Posts: 159

japan_01 · Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 89 Location: Gifu Ken

As for Nagoya, ID night club asks almost EVERY foreigner who looks remotely under 30 for some identification. The two beefy Japillians (1/2 Japanese, 1/2 Brazillian) look down on you like a cockroach from a Tokyo subway.

Sweetsee · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2302 Location: ) is everything

www.aatokyo.org/

canuck · Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 1921 Location: Japan

furiousmilksheikali · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:36 am Post subject:

The police probably don't clamp down very hard on this sort of thing because it's not much of a problem. If you were to put vending machines selling beer on every street corner of the UK there would be huge abuse of alcohol by under-aged drinkers (and when I say huge I mean even more so than there is at the moment).

I've been drinking alcohol since I was about three years old. My parents gave it to me. I don't think Japanese parents do this. In fact at the age of ten I could have drunk most Japanese parents under the table.

JimDunlop2 · Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 2286 Location: Japan

Sweetsee: It's a little tedious, don't you think? Nowhere is it written that you MUST provide a link to Tokyo AA in every single thread that alcohol or drinking is so much mentioned. Not everyone who goes out drinking is an alcoholic you know. Sheesh!

Rolling Eyes

furiousmilksheikali · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:57 am Post subject:

Sweetsee · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2302 Location: ) is everything

Last time I checked Jim, and you too Ali, it was a free world. And as long as people are so quick to judge, condemn, patronize, take the piss and generally be arrogant, I will continue to post whatever I feel like.
So, raise your glasses to that.
Hmmph...tedious...not in the least. What I find tedious is people who make comments regarding things they know nothing about. My reputation here has come as a result of exactly that, people more concerned with hassling me than sticking to the thread content.
My apologies to the OP for distracting from this thread.
Enjoy,
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furiousmilksheikali · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 3:23 am Post subject:

Jesus!

The point is that as soon as someone mentions alcohol you rush to "save our souls" or something.

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan