Even though I do not drink alcohol, I loved seeing Alcohol vending machines in Japan. A couple of hotels we stayed at had alcohol vending machines and I thought it was so awesome we were in a society where the trust level was so high that you could leave alcohol vending machines out in a public space and it did not cause trouble.

In America, that vending machine would last a couple of hours at most.

In most countries outside of Japan any vending machine wouldn't last.. the only place I still see them in my own country is inside airports and the like. The vending machines disappeared from outside years ago when some people started breaking them to get at the money.