Hard to know if "journalism" exist at all anymore.. this could be some random food blogger who got a media pass and accidentally asked a good question.. you wouldn't be able to know the difference.
Like smoking, alcohol is a huge industry in Japan. It's "normal" for Japanese companies to addict their employees to their products and because the companies ARE the government, they enact incredibly protectionist laws like this to prevent external competition.
Their economy depends on it. It's super gross. Like America and guns, or Sweden and flatpak furniture (the last one is a half joke)
If Japan starts being a cannabis producer, they'll 180 so fast you'll get vertigo.
He doesn't believe anything he says. He doesn't even hear himself. He's like a poorly trained LLM at this point. It's become so over tuned it's only spews nonsense with conviction
Developed by Quakers as a protest against capitalism. But like everything capitalism fucked that up too