Report Abuse. Japan is very conservative. Japan is also intolerant of others and xenophobic. They tend to be more monolithic than the US-there is very little diversity among the population.
The only way that alcohol can affect any of these antibiotics is to alter the rate in which the liver breaks them down or increase the rate in which they are excreted. However, because this is only true of certain antibiotics it is not true that alcohol, as a rule, decreases the effectiveness of antibiotics.
Alcohol can cause irritation of the bladder wall, which can cause symptoms similar to a bladder infection, but would require ingestion of very large amounts of alcohol in an individual whose liver was not working properly. Alcohol may lead to sexual contact which can lead to infection.