OSAKA (Kyodo) Japanese brewers are fiercely competing to sell canned "shochu" spirits with low alcohol content -- known as "chuhai" -- to deal with flagging beer sales.
Chuhai, an abbreviation of "shochu highball," is a combination of distilled spirits, fruit juice and carbonated water.
Sapporo Breweries Ltd. re-entered the market this month after an eight-year hiatus with Fruit Sparkling, the last of the top four domestic beer brewers to enter the race to sell the fruity drinks.