they also want those taxes

The 🐔 or the 🥚 question, which comes first?

@@LoneWolfOtaku The egg came first because everything evolves in it's embryotic stage. Every animal was laying eggs, an embryo inside an egg evolved into the first chick and hatched, which lead to more embryos inside eggs evolving into more chickens. Scientists have known the answer to that question for over 50 years, Google is your friend

@@LoneWolfOtaku Which comes first, the alcohol or the alcoholic

@@sxnthwave alcohol.

Basically most countries at the moment

And now they are attempting to cure the confusion by using an alcoholic potion.

@@EximiusDux It's super defective!

@@pollodeshebrado6761 You have 3 turn before fainting!

@@goldie8501 but at least tourism in other countries is doing pretty good

100% Japan has such a large presence in global alcohol production the map is ridiculous.

Yep

Exactly. In my personal opinion as a Japanese person, this is one of the worst aspects of Japanese politics.

Well a good chunk of their population are old and decrepit, so don't have long for this world. May as well scrounge up whatever benefits they can get before they kick the bucket.

The whole World will be in recession in around a quarter, if not sooner. America is teetering, China is drowning in issues, Germany is stagnant, UK officially will be in recession in Oct, Nov, Dec. So you can count on even less tourism worldwide. So while things were pretty fine again, Japan keeps their doors closed...and now they need us to help by visiting, as we enter an economic era where people are going to be struggling to pay their new absurd, unsustainable energy bills, wondering IF they'll have an Xmas, and Japan MAY open the doors...for barely anyone to come in. Sounds like a great recipe...

Can't wait for a drinking visa

@@Dynasty1818 I would say america has been in a recession this whole year but many means of measure. Things are actually getting better here, gas prices are going down again so that’s good.

"Open the country! Stop having it be closed!"

@@Rumham729 yeah, id say its been getting a bit better recently, even in terms of prices of goods. Been seeing things for cheaper then i would have beforehand.

Well, considering the only opened the country in the first place because the US literally bombed them into doing so...

@@mariadocarmosobreira8323 your brain is impressively small

😂😂😂😂😂😂

lets not forget there still getting covid and cases are up lol

Because they are well aware about their covid situation tho, kinda make sense

Sexism could also be at play here

This is why fossils shouldn't be in charge in the government. We need younger people in the government that actually understand the current world crises.

​@@Succubus_L0li Sexiesm and ageism.

Japanese govt people are like cell, light yagami, toguro, makoto shishio, vicious. Actually yhey need leader like lelouch

Their names and actios must never to be forgoetten :v

It's not his country, is it? He's not Japanese

@@Slydime917 He´s half Japanese

@@faloel riiight and I'm a tooth fairy. He doesn't look Japanese, so people don't see him as one. He'll never be regarded as Japanese, but a foreigner. The truth hurts, but it's reality, so let's face it instead of pretending it's not

They already do, it'll just be so much more prevalent when the population is all extremely elderly and suffering from the consequences of the normalized alcohol addictions, and their livers fail as they age

Addition.

It probably wont , the check republic is 9ne the worst alcaholic countries in world and most dont know its a problem even tho were talking lethal amounts of alcaholism

@@demonic_myst4503 Uhh try checking their culture as of now. Or the economy and compare how they do compared to their neighboring countries in Europe.

@@fel524 Alcohol + Brain = Addition.

And what's even funnier to me is that Japan is also known for it's strict regulations.

whats wrong with that? The West has become a mess because the West is too open. Good on Japan for not copying the West.

Japam is a dying g country for so many reasons, not getting covid vaccines because they think they know more is really gonna hurt them

“Boosting economy” by moving unnecessary money out of their struggling youth to the big beer companies 🤣 you know what else boosts the economy? Moving money out of overseas into Japan by tourism, maybe

Me, a Colombian 🇨🇴: "I'm going with you, good sir... Let me save the japanese ladies!" 😁😏🥵

the brits beg to differ

@@qwertpoiuy430 do brits drink irresponsibly on a national scale?

@@grandvage it’s their national sport

You're saying it like it's not how russians currently are. The country of drunks and warhungry lunatics. Somebody just have to turn it off and on again, I guess.

The widespread alcoholism in Russia is a lot more akin to the Opiod epidemic in the US. its doesnt just result in individuals suffering the health problems from excess consumption but also in the degradation of whole communities that get hooked.

Change is the devil, doesn't matter if it's good

Islam is malding

has always been. I have told my co workers that i dont like drinking and they say im being too health conscious and missing out on the "fun". What fun? Hangover? xDDD Since when is losing control a fun thing to do? More like embarrassing myself in public.

@@shinjid3705 Try out drinking/ smoking weed alone, not in public.

@@shinjid3705 Drinking is fine. But the real problem is drinking too much or making it the norm.

*The last generation didn't do anything, my generation was the best, and the next generation doesn't understand anything.* The irony of every generation saying the same thing.

oh man i just made a similar comment before i scrolled down more. yes we seriously could make SEVERAL bingo cards at this point

@@Blewlongmun damn, I’ll try to keep that in mind.

They abuse their employees then wonder why they can't retain them.

Agreed. Instead of making an idea and then asking young people how-to-implement-this. They should ask what ideas do you have and will this idea we have work. Work together with young people (not young myself) to make an idea that is successful. Also lets prioritise health over economics when it comes to alcohol. If people don't drink to much leave them alone.

It's kind of insane how strict they are with drugs because they're bad for your health, ruin your mental state, and can be insanely addicting, yet alcohol that does the exact same thing is free game apparently because it's morally okay compared to drugs like what-

It's disgusting how many people I see on a regular basis passed out in puddles of their own vomit in Shibuya every night and that's totally ok and fine. And doctors will literally hand out multiple sheets of Xanax like candy after a 2 minute appointment and zero vetting, that's also not a problem. But god forbid anyone have a crumb of weed or some mushrooms on them, that's the real problem!

Japan needs more beer, hash and occasional amphetamine. This would solve every problem.

@@Moon1tan Alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, and sugar are all more addicting/dangerous than weed, LSD, or magic mushrooms. Xanax, Adderall, Prozac, Zoloft, etc are all prescribed legal in most places and can all have permanent adverse effects from mental changes to psychoses to death . Drug laws in general make no sense.

i had a friend who taught english in japan in the 2000s. completely fluent in not just japanese but also korean and chinese, they should have had few issues socializing. however they are straight edge and the one time they ever touched alcohol in their life they had a terrible reaction to it that required hospitalization (something i can relate to as im also allergic to alcohol even though i am very much NOT straight edge. probably related to why this friend was straight edge is my point tho) ... they found it incredibly hard to integrate into socializing because of the heavy drinking culture there. so this was 15-20 years ago so it would i assume have been much worse back then compared to current young people level of sobriety in japan, but the difficulty of socializing as a tee-totaler in a heavy drinking culture was one of several main reasons they decided to leave japan because it resulted in them being so socially isolated. if you need frame of reference they were about 23-24+ yo mid-late 2000s when they returned from japan

Yep. I love a good nomihoudai every once in a while (especially while i was on exchange or interning), but having an alcoholic dad (now teetotal for 5+ years) really gives you that much needed perspective.

Meh beer tastes absolute garbage. I don't even know why people would drink it.

@@Zyleace right?? And wine tastes like sucking on an old, dry washcloth

@@erynflynn8467 You couldn't have said it any better. The taste of grape juice is already great and they still want to make wine. Blegh.

Actually both beer and wine taste bad. Just drink some meth. Its good for the soul

not really. The west is a mess because its too open. No wonder Japan doesnt want to copy the West

Sounds about right

maybe they need their younger people to drink more,because they want their younger people to socialize and to reproduce more. 7w7

@@ivanelias3916 maybe they would socialize more if they had more hours per day available instead of burning out for a job every day

​@@ivanelias3916 In that case they forget that alcoholism, nightlife and a fast food lifestyle is bad for ones fertility.

Japan is one of the country where logic is not relevant to tradition.

The problem is that, most Japanese companies simply can't effectively sell to a global market, and the reason goes straight back to the same root causes as all their other problems. No one in Japan can speak English well enough to do business overseas effectively. They can't fix the education system to improve that situation because they refuse to stop being so rigid. Foreign professionals don't want to work in Japan because of the shit pay and horrid working conditions, but they can't fix that either because they refuse to stop being so rigid. Inefficient business practices and outdated technology make it very difficult for Japanese companies to compete in the global market, but again this can't be fixed because they won't stop being rigid. This is a problem that Japanese economists and probably the government are well aware of and which is discussed quite a lot in the media here and such, but nothing effective has been done about it, nothing most likely will be done about it, and I'm not even sure anything can be done about it at this point. The most that ever happens are bullshit ideas like the ones in the video that make it look like the government is doing something but don't have any effect, the only two real choices are Japan needs to accept radical cultural change to actually address the core issues which are the root cause of all the things rotting the country from the inside or they will simply slowly fade into irrelevancy and die.

@@soasertsus I agree Japanese old people are stubborn and despise change

​@@soasertsus Sounds like Japan could do with an occupation... minus the bombs and horrible casualties this time around preferably. I don't want influence from outside to ruin the nicer part of the culture. But there is culture and then there is stagnation. If an aspect of your culture is causing stagnation you likely should throw that aspect out and burn it.

@@soasertsus foreigners who have worked in japan talk about how inefficient the work is. Chris from abroad in Japan said that even though he finished his work early he couldn't go home at a normal time. He was expected to stay until the boss was done. Even if he sat there playing with a pencil.

円安なんだなぁ... yen value goes down recently...

Don't get me started on the lack of good Japanese whiskey! I was beating this drum 2yrs ago before the damn pandemic!

Well if Suntory and Nikka dont have any aged whisky for the next decade, then they didnt miss the opportunity. The industry actually sold more than what they had, so its still a success. Reputations arent as bad as you make it out because i haven't heard of anyone saying negatively about Suntory, Nikka or Kirin.

Es como dije en un comentario, esta a solo unos cuantos pasos de comvertirse en nuestro platanal XD

Yes, you're totally right. The old people is in power and they blame of all the problems in other people, not them: foreigners or younger japanese.

Old ppl stupid and delusional.

@@edivimo Sometimes they do be really blaming the youngs. Like TF you want us to do? We don't have voting power in terms of numbers and representatives. With a shitty ass overall life and is already overworked while all the Taxes is going through that sweat welfare bullsh1t politicians put on for votes.

A lot of countries are like that, a lot of elites have found ways to kick any possible challengers out of the way or bring them too deep into the fold. Their old foggies who don't want to lose control of their place in history/wealth/meaning you name it, especially when they're losing control over mental and physical aspects. Something I deal with my grandma and she's just a typical retiree, but refuses to give up her big house she won't take care of herself and makes her family near nonstop deal with, she makes it impossible for anyone to want to live near/or with her to keep an eye on her, and refuses to admit her hearing and eyesight are going hard. Its what happens when elites just have kids and tell them to fudge off while they fudge the maids and butlers, and then those elites have kids with the thought they're godlings and nothing they do is wrong, but if those peasants step out of line they're getting it! They become complacent cause a lot of those parents/now grandparents didn't really want to challenge them but happily spoil them in all honesty.

CEOs are too greedy to let people to work less, even tho global productivity due modern technology is sky high like never before, we shouldn't really work more than 4-6h a day

oh you spitting right now

If the rest of "the world" handled covid better, they probably wouldn't have to.

@@Dregomz02 And thats the best part. People are working so many hours they can't meet or hang out with anyone so the CEOs are basically punching themselves and the Government in the face and making new future tax payers basically impossible since people aren't able to have sex as much or at all.

@@Cookie20212 in this pandemic?

There is a benefit to my joy. As much as I despise overly indulgent alcoholics, this new wave of prohibitionist teetotalers online are just as obnoxious at this point. You guys are on the same level of militant vegans and anti-natalists in your crusade of who can be the most annoying.

Everything in moderation...1 coffee per day has some benefits (or at least no negative effects) but if you drink 5+ you flush vitamins and calcium down the drain. Italians drink wine and live very long, beer can help with digestion and urinary stuff... but if you drink one now and then, not 6 in one sitting or a crate over the weekend.

​@@Entropic_Alloy ...he wasn't even calling for restriction of alcohol. He was just saying there are no health benefits. Stop lashing out because your coping mechanism for life was criticised. I like fatty food and ate it to silly degree for the longest time as a way to deal with stress but I ain't gonna claim it was good for me, nor will I attack people for criticising eating too much. Seriously, their comment had nothing about regulations or prohibitions. Where the hell did you get that from?

Another layer of funny in the fact that UK drinking is greater than in Japan.

This may be true if you're English. But my 101yo great grandfather said the way of life is alcohol and women.

wow holy shit really?

@@Dartagnan753 that is anecdotal, and in no way any kind of proof.

@@guillaumejacques-pouliot8088 so is the statement from op that can't link the study.

Yes, I too watched the video. You practically just regurgitated the point Joey made bar for bar several times.

They should be letting people in the country? What do you mean? Renting them out or bloodletting?

@@MCcheezewizard well that was a little mean spirited

The cost is even higher levels of covid of course, which could be devastating to japans aging population. You're fucked either way tbh. A stagnating economy or larger death and more chance for not only a foreign strain being introduced but also the development of a new one. Pick your poison I suppose.

Think Joey missed the point of worldwide recession and inflation, just because Japan opens up does not mean they will get tourism back to pre pandemic levels

Old as Liberals and neoliberals thinking the world can conform to their mental gymnastics. Liberals are conservatives in denial.

It could also be a “power-complex” said boomers want.. to control everything and everyone but who knows.

It really was a global issue

How do we get rid of lead brained boomers in power? WE'RE JUST GONNA KILL EM'

Lead poisoning is a worldwide phenomenon :)

Japan be like: "Clearly, foreigners are always the problem"

Immigration isn't a solution for Japan, but tourism would clearly help with the issues present. If they continue like this their softpower will be at stake.

@@xXDESTINYMBXx agreed

i mean the problem at the root is the work ethic if you think about it, ah yes let's work 17 hours a day so the people will not have a life, this causes lack of relationships and lack of friends and a partner, they both create lonliness and lack of offsprings they both create sadness (high rate of suicides) and in the end they both create a lack of people, less people? more need to people from other places to fill places (customers in this case) the economy stagnates ecc... ecc... . For the love of god Japan is a great country but rotten to the core

@@mr.tosciro4025 Honestly that's not even the root of it. It's the rigid culture of "It has to be like this, we can't do that, and we all have to follow a strict structure in our way of living." The work ethic is just an offshoot of their collective culture. Allowance and compromise are not options to their problems which they don't know, created more problems honestly.

"Bartender"

We're about to help Japan with their population issues 😉

Ski season is approaching..

@@tacitus_ oh shit your moms going there?

Bro you want to make japan the new america?

@@Chi-Chi-Fy yes

this comment made me laugh thanks

"if you didn't drink coffee and buy that new phone you could afford a home.... (looks at housing prices) in 150 years"

Beer in belly = good economy

remember when every boomer journalist was writing up millenials for loving avocado toast and being emotionally sensitive/open to going to therapy? it's kind of like that, except with real life consequences instead of just online outrage lmao

@@lethaldream50 Ngl therapy is hella gay

gdp growth is basically expenditure.

You be surprised how many politicians have big businesses supporting their campaigns in exchange for later governmental help, and you be surprised how much bad stuff companies are willing to do to increase their profits. Likely their hands were tied to encourage alcoholism, because sake is big business in japan.

@@ColumnBlack oh i dont doubt that, but at least here in America that normally takes the form of business getting tax breaks etc, you would never see the government taking up the charge to get more people to buy more cars or buy more pizza. That is always seen to be the business's problem to attract more buyers

@@darthkimball maybe they don't do it so upfront, but they still pass laws or don't that favor those companies ( example big pharma ) which I think is worst.

i was looking for this

i lived in south lake tahoe CA for years and worked as a chef for 7 of those years at a resort. Its a casino resort town right on the border of CA and Nevada so bars were open 24/7 I ended up moving because i couldn't take the constant drinking and drug use of LITERALY the entire community lmao. Japan is going down a slippery slope with this one, they dont know what they're asking for

especially Boris Johnson

nah, Japan's drug laws are draconian so they got that covered

@@internetshortscomp5810 In what way draconian?

@@oyveyshalom you will lose your job and friends if you get caught with drugs and ofc go to jail and then you may as well end homeless since nobody would want to hire you. They could benefit from psychodelics to treat depression and use marihuana/mdma to treat people with anxiety but nah they are prohibited better take unproved big pharma useless pills, that sure will help you.

To be fair, they are different branches, the Tax agency does their own thing. The drinking campaign has nothing to do with tourism or immigration.

@@Pepe-dq2ib So? They should be working together to a certain extent, even if they are separate branches.

Well getting every young person in Japan drunk might lead to another solution to another problem: the low birth rates. More drunk young people could result in more babies which means a more secure future workforce.

Typical case of Japan being to self-focused to make use of a great opportunity.

japan has been in the game of shitting on young people since the 90s its the legit og in terms of this most of the west only started after 2008 decades later.

So you saying drink some wine/holy water is wrong?

@@randomthing9712 it's unhealthy that's for sure.

@@kaischreurs2488 no, if you didn't do it extremely, some wine after a hard work together with friends aren't that bad, you realize right? That Japan is hard working individualisme country. Little wine wouldn't do much, but make people together. What could go wrong. Look at Europe and USA, they drink a lot, and look at them, but a good place to live

@@randomthing9712 it's still unhealthy, it doesn't have to immediately cause problems but even in normal/small amounts it's better not to drink. I know europe is a good place to live (still depends a bit on what country but generally it is) cause I live there, people drinking alcohol if fine and all but actively promoting something that at best is unhealthy and at worst has ruined millions of lives is just stupid.

@@kaischreurs2488 hmmmm, so you didn't drink but live in Europe, so what are you then, a refugee from middle east. Owh Well it was your life anyway to choose not to drink, not me.

Crudos

My whole family would've been out there clapping too

Greetings from a fellow Mexican! 😎👍🇲🇽 Yeah, there's a serious alcoholism problem in this country. I live in the state of Aguascalientes, and people look forward to the weekend JUST to get drunk without having to worry about the next day.

@@BknMoonStudios Mexican bruh moment Quisiera decir que no son mis primos peeeeero...

my memory is hazy but i think there was a BRIEF thing where some random US state considered banning alcohol during the peak first wave (2020) of the pandemic. i remember reading about it but none of the details since it was not my state. anyway what i do remember is that consideration did NOT last long

Ever heard of what the Russians tzars did? Though probably for a different purpose here it’s quite insidious nevertheless.

at this point the onion is just a website that predicts real things that will happen

@@V01DIORE The USSR also bought up all the vodka factories to produce cheap vodka, so even starving people could afford to get drunk when there was no bread to eat.

Souichiro Honda wouldn't give his son a position at Honda. His son instead went and made the tuner company Mugen granted it was Honda cars he did make parts and work on probably did at some point did get some kind of discount though for cars that he worked on. But he didn't get to be the next CEO of Honda.

There's already a word for that. Alcoholic. D

@@turtleofpride4572 The problem is that the word “alcoholic” holds very little weight in our current society. You see people going full karen mode when they see someone smoking regular or even weed cigarettes. Going as far as having massive anti smoking campaigns worldwide or banning it outright. Meanwhile these same people have no problem drinking all night and easy drink 5+ liters of beer/wine/whatever and see nothing wrong with it, even though alcohol is FAR more damaging to your entire body then smoking (weed). Look up “South Park Alcohol Ad” to see how alcohol is actually still advertised to this day as if it’s nothing but safe and clean fun. Calling it what it really is, DRUGS, puts much more weight on the issue, and makes people much more aware of what they put in their bodies. Everything can be enjoyed in moderation, but not when you drink it as if it’s water in the desert...

@@mhdj14 i myself am a recovering alcoholic, am an American so I'm pretty firmly with how the Alcohol industry works. The problem is drug addict already has connotation, stigma an behaviors different than what society sees in alcohol. Alcohol is a drug but it's always been social okie. Where doing a bag of heroin has never been okie.

Drunk and drunk sex, they want more babies.

The people in positions of power are stuck in the 1980's. Instead of moving forwards, their default position is always to go backwards. It's maddening. So many of us fell in love with Japan because it was a bright colourful place, full of new bold, daring ideas, pushing the limits of what was possible, always seeming to be lightyears ahead of everyone else. Ever since the 1990's, Japan has regressed. They've retreated inwards. They stopped being bold and innovative and stopped trying to be a global leader, while other countries like China and Korea have left them behind in the dust. They've become the world's Hikkikimori.

As someone said in a different comment, they have personified the meme, "it hurt itself in confusion".

"out of touch government" is a tautology.

I have always loved this quote lol

Yo, it's a holy water

🇮🇪

Yeah I think you have a point here. Most of the COVID border restrictions situation has been weird because of politics. The elections really politicized any moves made regarding border restrictions and COVID-related rules.

They DO have a historic record of not admitting to wrongdoings **AHEM WW2** COUGH COUGH**

population density in many metropolitan (which most of it is engine to run japan economy) are too high and with that it some too risk get people infect a lot in kind of japan health care can not handle it anyway , in my opinion they should be more consider to more depopulated people in major city in some measure like move some company office to medium size city etc.

@@rp-wn5or Same goes with the US in that regards and all the way up until now. lol

@@Kikan319 true! but at least the US is willing to adapt to the times by having a meritocracy, even if they ignore the past/wrongdoings. Japan unfortunately does neither. It sucks because the Japanese used to be a powerhouse BECAUSE they realized the past ways of life wasn’t gonna work (aka post war era and up till the 80s)