After searching online, it seems everyone knows that “たけのこニョッキ”, which was a game from a TV program aired Wednesdays at 11 PM from 2003 to 2005? It’s a game where several people call out numbers in order starting from 1, and if they overlap, they lose. And judging by the name, that posture is a growing bamboo shoot. You mentioned it was a bar, and this does seem like a game suitable for a noisy bar, so it’s plausible.

I am not Japanese, but there is a party game? https://45mix.net/takenoko-nyokki/ https://youtu.be/WkXyWmBauxg

There was postwowan, it is currently renamed to Hoppscotch https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch

Korean here. My country hasn’t even collected the data yet, so it will. What were they thinking?

https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-israel-surveillance-azure-idf-gaza-genocide/290534/