What is the drinking age is Japan?

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20 is the "adulthood" age in Japan. However drinking is a part of Japanese culture (though mainly Sake) so it is less enforced as compared to smoking. You'll notice cigarette vending machines require an ID to purchase from where as alcohol vending machines do not.

They almost never card foreigners and when they do you if you have an ID from a friend that looks similar to you who is 20+, you can probably get by. That worked for a girl I knew during my exchange in Osaka who wanted to go to a bar with all of us but was 19.