Abstract
This note suggests that traffic related problems among youths in Japan reflect different inducements to drink and drive for example in new patterns of alcohol use and high dependence on the private automobiles. The problem may also reflect the incompetence of alcohol control policies, not only the traditional ones based on criminal law but also those based in alcohol policy, transportation policy, and other approaches. Those persons and organisations in position to influence new legislations should consider enactment of regulations such as lower legal BAC limit, night time curfews, graduate licensing systems and abolition of two hundred thousand (200,000) alcohol vending machines to prevent youth traffic accidents in Japan.