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- Nov 19, 2018
As someone who lived in Japan, spent some time in Korea, and knows about Asians in general, I would put money on the fact that the only reason Japan's is lower than the US's is because women there in general don't drink as much (there was once an end cap for a "girl's night" at this grocery store in Tokyo which was literally just canned non-alcoholic cocktails and individually wrapped prunes), but every weekend, you would see salarymen passed out on the side of the road outside of train stations. In fact, pretty much every weekend in Tokyo, someone drunkenly falls onto the tracks. And pretty much every morning, you could find a construction worker drinking a beer on the train. And the funny thing is, Japs do have an alcohol allergy. They turn bright red when they drink and when they REALLY drink (which, again, is often for men), they turn purple.
As for China, you can't trust any statistics that they put out (many people think China's population is much smaller than their purported 1.4 billion based on satellite images of lights at night) especially because a lot of the alcohol they consume is bootlegged. Not in the moonshine way but using a cheaper chemical concoction that tastes somewhat like alcohol. Drinking culture in communist China is pretty fucked: basically no one enjoys the taste of alcohol, but you have to prove you can handle your liquor and especially must drink if you're out with a communist party member. They're all fucking retarded.
