Scenes from Miyakejima can look downright post-apocalyptic. Each resident on the tiny Japanese island is required to carry a gas mask, just in case they need to quickly pull it on.

However, looking at the images, it appears that the wine is meant to be inserted into the bottom of the gas mask hose and slurped up, elephant like. That can't be right, but I almost don't want to ...

Japan will deliver gas masks to Ukraine and banned the import of Russian vodka The sanctions affect 38 products that account for about 1.1 percent of the Asian country's purchases from Russia.