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ALCOHOL

Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE RECIPE BOX
Aug 21, 2022
Recipe: Mojito sin mint
Ditch the mint and throw some shiso into your mojito for a Japanese twist on the classic summer cocktail.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 18, 2022
Brewer Asahi set to raise prices to battle increase in costs
Asahi, along with other Japanese retailers have been facing pressure to raise prices for the first time in decades.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2022
Japan tax agency’s pro-drinking campaign sparks backlash
The tax agency's 'Sake Viva!” idea competition, which is seeking business plans to help 'revitalize” the liquor industry, was launched in July and gained traction on Twitter this week.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 16, 2022
Major Japanese beer-makers log higher revenue in January-June period
Suntory Holdings saw its revenue increase 15.2% to u00a51.373 trillion, while Asahi Group Holdings' revenue rose 11.4% to u00a51.151 trillion.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 14, 2022
Subterranean sake: Cave aging Japan’s national drink
Sake isn't usually aged. When it is, though, it's virtually never done over years in repurposed underground caverns.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / New Wine Frontier
Aug 7, 2022
A new wine legend sprouts from the land of the gods
Chief vintner Norio Abe wasn't interested in wine — until an order he couldn't refuse and a few years in the fields convinced him he had much more than a spark of talent.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 7, 2022
Sip on sake’s unfiltered kin at Heiwa Shuzo’s new brewpub
Even from across the bar, there's no mistaking a bottle of milky doburoku for sake, its refined counterpart.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 2, 2022
Liquor tax revenue dives in Japan amid pandemic
Both the size of the fall and the rate of decrease were the largest in 31 years since the impact of a drastic revision of the Liquor Tax Law in fiscal 1989.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 1, 2022
Kirin turns to health care as beer business draws scrutiny
Kirin aims to generate u00a5500 billion ($3.8 billion) in health care sales over the next decade.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE RECIPE BOX
Jul 17, 2022
Recipe: Barley tea highball
Whiskey and sweet. Gin and Earl Grey. Mugi-cha and mugi-shu014dchu016b?
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 19, 2022
Recipe: Ume fizz cocktail
With a pedigree dating back to 1876, the classic gin fizz is in dire need of a modern update.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Jun 13, 2022
Breathalyzers in short supply in Japan amid stricter rules for work drivers
Although alcohol checks can be done visually for the time being, companies that use a certain number of noncommercial vehicles will be required to use breathalyzers starting in October.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 30, 2022
A glass half-full approach that is helping alcoholics to quit
Instead of pressuring patients to quit drinking right away, doctors at the hospital set a target with their patients to reduce their alcohol consumption.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KANPAI CULTURE
Apr 12, 2022
Sake springs eternal at Yumegokoro Shuzo
Welcome in the season with warmer weather, longer days and sake as fresh as a sea breeze.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 11, 2022
The mysterious man who built (and then lost) Little Tokyo
The cluster of these Japanese-style businesses on Stuyvesant Street came together organically over many years. Japan Village emerged nearly all at once.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / New Wine Frontier
Apr 2, 2022
Minakata Jozo: Seeding renewal in rural Japan
Nobuari Soga 'started farming to be close to nature's blessings.' He soon discovered he could also express himself through the art of winemaking and was hooked.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 2, 2022
Does moderate drinking protect your heart? A genetic study offers a new answer.
The risk of heart disease is small if people have an average of seven drinks a week when compared with none. But it increases quickly as the level of alcohol consumption rises.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 25, 2022
Drunken driver sentenced to 14 years in prison over deaths of two children
The Chiba District Court found Hiroshi Umezawa guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol when he crashed into a group of children heading home from school.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 16, 2022
Master brewer teaches tradition to rivals and sake brewer heirs
Technologies are all made public sooner or later, perhaps the free flow of information will encourage a better flow of sake.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 9, 2022
A Kobe farmers market opens Tha Door for craft beer-loving couple
Momentum was building around In Tha Door Brewing's collaborations but it wasn't until 2018 when the Nakatos decided something more formal was needed.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.

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