Japanese drinking indoctrination

With the Japanese school year now almost a month old, many students will be steadily settling in to a new system and surroundings. For others though, things may not be so simple, with the likes of bullying and baffling bureaucracy a constant bane.

But thankfully help is at hand, as worried youngsters can now simply look to the stressed-out salary men that sired them, and lunge straight for the lager — or at least a lovingly created likeness.

Which, as well as being welcome both before and after school, is luckily in plentiful supply,

and is positively perfect for parties with similarly persecuted peers.