Re:Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018)
by laurieg on Thursday March 21, 2019 @08:52AM
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I lived in a Japanese university dormitory for a year. Alcohol is absurdly easy for under 20's to purchase. There is essentially no checking of IDs in shops. Most shops have a touch screen point of sale system that will ask "Are you over 20?" if you buy an alcoholic product. Some of those systems only have the "Yes" answer button...
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Re:Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018)
by MiddleEndian on Thursday March 21, 2019 @01:42PM
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Sounds like a much better system than in the US where they send in cops who pretend to be 18-20 just to say "gotcha!" and fine restaurants.