Toward the end of last year I had an occasion to attend a gathering with Junichiro Koizumi. It was at a Japanese restaurant in Ginza. The master of the restaurant brought a couple of bottles of warmed sake to our table. One person in our group took a bottle and filled the cups of Koizumi and others. My sake came from another bottle. I said a few words of thanks to Koizumi, who was our main guest, and proposed a toast.
Koizumi drank his sake with relish and put down his cup. Then he offered the sake bottle in my direction and told me to have a drink. I did, emptying the cup in one go.
"Isn't it good?" Koizumi asked.