Come, reader, let us quaff.
"A civilization stands or falls by the degree to which drink has entered the lives of its people, and from that point of view Japan must rank very high among the civilizations of the world," observed essayist Kenichi Yoshida in "Japan is a Circle" (1975).
So it must.
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