Katsuhito Honda would stare into the mirror as he finished off another "shochu."
He swore with each cup of the distilled spirits that it would be his last. But he couldn't stop and didn't know why.
Honda, 55, said that in the beginning he was just a social drinker. But when his company started to have problems, he started drinking heavily. Eventually he couldn't go without alcohol in his system.
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