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JAPAN : TOKYO
Booze alert as young Japanese students come of age.
DAZZLING in colorful kimonos and wafting clouds of hair spray in their wake, thousands of young Japanese students/girls/women marked their entry into adulthood Monday -before hitting a bar to celebrate.
Formal ''Coming of Age'' ceremonies which began as a rite of ancient samurai families, were held across Japan for its 20-year-old, reminding them of their responsibilities after becoming old enough to legally drink and smoke.
Their male counterparts looked more like they were attending job interviews as most opted for the kind of plain business suit they will wear as ''salarymen'' in the future.
''I'll definitely be having a few drinks tonight,'' Arisu Oshida told AFP, wrapped in a salmon-pink kimono and expensively made-up with cherry-red lips and gold-flakes in her hair.
''It will probably taste a little different knowing it's legal to drink alcohol. I expect to somewhere tipsy and smashed by midnight.''
Huddled against the chill wind, crowds of new adults offered prayers at Tokyo's Meiji shrine, while-
Many more flocked to Disneyland just outside the capital to ride roller-coasters and pose for photos with Mickey Mouse and friends.
- AGENCIES.
Booze alert as young Japanese students come of age.
DAZZLING in colorful kimonos and wafting clouds of hair spray in their wake, thousands of young Japanese students/girls/women marked their entry into adulthood Monday -before hitting a bar to celebrate.
Formal ''Coming of Age'' ceremonies which began as a rite of ancient samurai families, were held across Japan for its 20-year-old, reminding them of their responsibilities after becoming old enough to legally drink and smoke.
Their male counterparts looked more like they were attending job interviews as most opted for the kind of plain business suit they will wear as ''salarymen'' in the future.
''I'll definitely be having a few drinks tonight,'' Arisu Oshida told AFP, wrapped in a salmon-pink kimono and expensively made-up with cherry-red lips and gold-flakes in her hair.
''It will probably taste a little different knowing it's legal to drink alcohol. I expect to somewhere tipsy and smashed by midnight.''
Huddled against the chill wind, crowds of new adults offered prayers at Tokyo's Meiji shrine, while-
Many more flocked to Disneyland just outside the capital to ride roller-coasters and pose for photos with Mickey Mouse and friends.
- AGENCIES.
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