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I also drink a lot of alcohol with my meals, but I find that often Japanese people who eat with me refrain from ordering alcohol because the next day is a work day - so Fridays wil…

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This article might be alluding to an age difference since I am in my early twenties, but I can attest that I am a weak drinker but I drink more alcohol than virtually every Japanes…

I also live in Japan currently and I find the drinking culture to be weak. I've met a few people who drink daily but they tend to come from other parts of Asia (Korea etc...) where…

I think this is more age related. I am actually in Japan currently and I can attest that no-one I know will drink daily like in Europe, possibly weekly but the weekly drinks tend t…

As someone who is living in Japan, I would say that Japanese drank less than Europeans for sure. Europeans will drink a couple of glasses of wine every night for example.

There are more westerners outside the US than inside the US.

It is broken in many countries including India and China. The issues are the duopoly over global transactions, the monopoly over the transactions, and the dominance of the US dolla…

Japanese people drink far less than westerners though. Those work parties are just one-off and not regular things.

Islam is hardly the best place to go looking for advice. A mediocre person is not a dumb person and may well be proficient in certain views.

It needs to be mentioned that casteism is less of an issue in the major urban areas and in South India. In these places it is possible to grow up and live your entire life without …

Casteism is generally a smaller problem in urban areas and in South India, so technically casteism is a smaller problem in places like Bengaluru where the IT tech companies are bas…

IT is one of the least casteist sectors within India though.

I wonder how the French got into that problem since nuclear power plants exist in tropical countries where the temperatures can get incredibly high.

The tragedy is that people who want to use the railways are put below freight in priority - whereas other countries such as Russia and India are capable of mixing both.

The social structure and how you view friends or make friends are different in all cultures including Japan. Japan does not have the concept of "casual friends" or "light hearted f…

If you live in an area populated by older people then yes.

But this assertion was more about racism than walkable cities.

Something I learn in Japan was that you also need to have friends/people who share the same ideology as you. In Western Europe there would be people who support you making a startu…

I also live in Japan but I wouldn't use the term "kissa" outside MangaKissa or a traditional coffee shop (and who goes to a traditional coffee shop on a normal occasion?)?

Tokyo is basically centered along an orbital railway line, so if you were to walk out from this line that you would be basically walking to the suburbs with suburban highway roads …

You could bet you that those four people would have the same thing happen to them in Japan's walkable cities as well. It is nothing to do with walkable cities.

Walking is simpler and easier in most cases though. I find that the issue is more about how far people are capable of walking (e.g. fitness levels in much of Europe and Asia are be…