What kind of loser allows himself to pushed to drink more than he should (when he knows it himself), when the person doing the pushing isn't obviously drinking that much themselves? That was really pitiful. I have never lived in Japan, but I don't believe it works like that even over there, in those obligatory after work drinking parties. If he finds it so difficult to say no, he should have just consumed less alcohol by ordering drinks with a lower alcohol percentage. Now he built himself an image of a person who can easily be pushed beyond his limits, regardless of what's good for him. That's not a good image to possess at all.