Japan launches nationwide competition to boost alcohol consumption

[Petcha]

The Japanese version of 'eat out to help out'. Love it. Help the economy by getting smashed...

The Sake Viva! campaign, which is being run by the National Tax Agency (NTA), asks 20- to 39-year-olds to come up with proposals to help revitalise the popularity of alcoholic drinks, which have fallen out of favour because of lifestyle changes during the coronavirus pandemic and among young people.

Japan launches nationwide competition to boost alcohol consumption

Contest asks young adults for ideas to revitalise popularity of alcoholic drinks after big fall in tax revenues

www.theguardian.com

I've never been to Japan. But I'm liking their style. Young people here have been letting the nation down with the recent absurd trendiness of abstinence and sobriety. They're a disgrace.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

he y y o u w t a h?
fe sake ek
nvminayrtdsfghjirold

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

名乗る名前はあるだけ邪魔よ
あるは気ままと あるは気ままと
供の酒

 

[teuchter]

Well, behind this are probably some quite interesting stories about how the pandemic has affected Japan's work culture, which has after-work drinking as a significant component, and which must be struggling quite a bit with the concept of WFH.

 

[ash]

They’ve closed them self off to the world again haven’t they? Happened after the war and they started to open up then covid - boom!
My niece is going there as part of her Uni course and has had to have all sorts of tests including hearing and vision tests which is a bit strange ?

 

[Yossarian]

"Drink more because the taxman wants you to" doesn't sound like the most enticing campaign - maybe they could appeal to young people's sense of duty and show them all the new hospitals etc. that could get built if it wasn't for their selfish sobriety.

 

[Raheem]

Pass out to help out.

 

[JimW]

Inebriation to fight stagnation.

 

[High Voltage]

Hold my beer. I'm in

 

[kalmatthew]

I've been thinking about checking to see if they need training and consultancy services, pretty sure I could run some drinking lessons!

 

[Elpenor]

Get one over the eight to help the state

 

[Cid]

Well maybe if they got their whiskey producers to charge less exorbitant prices, I'd buy some. They have tried to boost foreign exports before, but duty etc is an issue there... Some of their gins (well, Roku) have had success at broadly affordable prices though, dunno how they manage that (but I don't really know how duty works tbf). I do think Sake could find a niche, but when the cheapest plonk is £12/720ml it's a tough sell.

Agree with teuchter on domestic market.

Shippou-Sensei you still drinking sake etc?

 

[frogwoman]

Their birth rate is really low, maybe that's got something to do with it too...

 

[MickiQ]

Their birth rate is really low, maybe that's got something to do with it too...

I'm fairly certain that Middle Q (25/09/93) was a consequence of a drunken night of passion on the preceding New Year's Eve when we threw caution and contraception to the wind

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Some of their gins (well, Roku) have had success at broadly affordable prices though, dunno how they manage that (but I don't really know how duty works tbf)

That's quite nice gin but I only buy it when it's reduced in price - weirdly, this seems to happen a fair bit for some reason. Maybe a promotional thing by the manufacturer.

 

[Cid]

That's quite nice gin but I only buy it when it's reduced in price - weirdly, this seems to happen a fair bit for some reason. Maybe a promotional thing by the manufacturer.

More likely standard supermarket tactics of the 'normal' price being +10% or whatever over their required margin. They'll do that with stuff like Hendricks too.

 

[Dr. Furface]

They’ve closed them self off to the world again haven’t they?

Pretty much. If they'd open the country up to tourism again - like properly, not just a few escorted groups - I'm sure they'd see their alcohol sales take a sharp upturn

 

[Supine]

Brexit Britain > Paralytic Japan

 

[Cid]

Wow they really have gone a bit weird - entry through approved travel agency only?

 

[Yossarian]

"For goodness - sake."

 

[A380]

Sake McSakeface.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Well maybe if they got their whiskey producers to charge less exorbitant prices, I'd buy some. They have tried to boost foreign exports before, but duty etc is an issue there... Some of their gins (well, Roku) have had success at broadly affordable prices though, dunno how they manage that (but I don't really know how duty works tbf). I do think Sake could find a niche, but when the cheapest plonk is £12/720ml it's a tough sell.

Agree with teuchter on domestic market.

Shippou-Sensei you still drinking sake etc?

I'm not. It's hard to get hold of the good stuff. While it is easy nowadays to get decent cider.


I did have some Japanese whisky once. Was nice, which surprised me as I normally dislike it.
Very smooth.

 

[WouldBe]

Well, behind this are probably some quite interesting stories about how the pandemic has affected Japan's work culture, which has after-work drinking as a significant component, and which must be struggling quite a bit with the concept of WFH.

Maybe they could have an after work drink over teams.

 

[Ax^]

are they offering visa can come over to help for a few months

 

[Elpenor]

Wow they really have gone a bit weird - entry through approved travel agency only?

I have read a recent account of a business traveller to Japan on a travel forum I post on. It sounds a right mess.

 

[Yossarian]

are they offering visa can come over to help for a few months

The tax agency might already be inundated with Western grifters offering their services as conviviality facilitation consultants.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Sake is the worst kind of booze there is. Well, maybe not the worst overall but the worst that doesn't at least have the decency to also be cheap.

 

[Ted Striker]

FSS

 

[Cid]

Sake is the worst kind of booze there is. Well, maybe not the worst overall but the worst that doesn't at least have the decency to also be cheap.

You have never tried baijiu.

 

[JimW]

You have never tried baijiu.

You can spend a fortune on some absolute diesel but I have had some surprisingly nice stuff, albeit nearly always homebrew.