Japan has marked Coming of Age Day, a national holiday in which those ... Eighteen-year-olds in Japan will still be banned from drinking alcohol, smoking, gambling and adopting children: they ...

"I can take a loan when I'm 18, but drinking will still be prohibited," another user pointed out. Some also pointed out that there might be confusion around the Coming of Age ceremony - a Japanese ...

Bucking the age-old stereotype of hard-drinking ... In Shibuya, the newly opened Sumadori Bar--a play on the Japanese words for “smart drinking”--offers elaborate, sugary cocktails that ...

The term "nominication" comes from combining nomi, meaning “drinking” in Japanese, and the English “communication ... Surprisingly, this attitude wasn’t found only among younger workers. When ...

The legal smoking and drinking age in Japan is 20 and the JGA’s code of conduct prohibits gymnasts from doing either during ...