I once visited a Japanese night club in Kyoto. All the beer & other drinks (coke, water, etc) in the club was served by vending machines around the edges of th

I once visited a Japanese night club in Kyoto. All the beer & other drinks (coke, water, etc) in the club was served by vending machines around the edges of the club. There was a bar but you only went there for cocktails or mixed drinks, and you paid through the nose for the pleasure. It's one of those things that, when you see it, you wonder 'why isn't it like this everywhere?'. The answer is probably something to do with responsible service of alcohol, which for some reason isn't an issue in Japan (even though you see salarymen passed out in gutters everywhere, I guess they don't tend to get into fights)