alcohol

Japan

is, in Japan, constructed as necessary in bringing individuals (particularly males) together and allowing for informal exchanges socially coded as otherwise impossible while sober.

Whether the motivation is steeped in ritual importance, or in simply wanting to get drunk and enjoy oneself, drinking alcohol is constructed as imperative to briging individuals together and allowing for exchanges understood as impossible while sober. What results is alcohol consumption, especially for Japanese men, embraced as culturally significant and individually requisite in forging intimate bonds of friendship with other men.'

Paul Christiansen

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