by Tyler Durden
Apparently, Japan's decision
Because after an association of liquor retailers complained to representatives of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party about
a demand from a government bureaucrat that distributors stop working with restaurants who continued to serve booze during the pandemic, it looks like the government has abandoned that request.
The news was broken by the English-language media outlet the Mainichi:
The All Japan Liquor Merchants Association demanded the LDP revise the request by economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, who is in charge of Japan's coronavirus response, saying that his remark was "outrageous."
The association's chairperson Kiyotaka Yoshida told Shimomura that liquor retailers were being targeted and added,