Should the legal drinking age in Japan be lowered from twenty to eighteen?
These days, the rare of drinking minors (the people under twenty years old in Japan) is increasing. According to the research by Japan Public Hygiene Institution, 25.4% third-year male students at junior high school, 17.2% third-year female students there, 51.5% third-year male students at high school and 35.9% third-year female students there drink alcohol once or twice a month. Despite such fact that many minors begin to drink in their youth, there are opinions that the legal drinking age in Japan be lowered form twenty to eighteen. I think that they are wrong in some respects. In my opinion, lowering the legal age of drinking is undesirable because it has a bad influence upon young people’s health and increase of tragic traffic accidents.
If the legal age of drinking is lowered, it’ll harm young people’s health physically, mentally, acute and chronic. If young people growing begin to drink, the following physical problems can happen. First, there is possibility of the destruction of brain tissue. Drinking during youth leads the decline of the concentration and memory. Second, young drinking people tend to have and organic disorder, an affection of the liver, cerebrovascular accident（脳卒中）when they are forties. It is earlier than ordinary people as the diseases take about 15 years after beginning of drinking. Moreover, there is a considerable danger that they become
the acute alcoholism as minor’s liver is undeveloped, and it is difficult for them to resolve alcohol. In addition, it is pointed out that drinking youth tend to depend on alcohol in the future.
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Should the legal drinking age in Japan be lowered from twenty to eighteen?
These days, the rare of drinking minors (the people under twenty years old in Japan) is increasing. According to the research by Japan Public Hygiene Institution, 25.4% third-year male students at junior high school, 17.2% third-year female students there, 51.5% third-year male students at high school and 35.9% third-year female students there drink alcohol once or twice a month. Despite such fact that many minors be...
