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LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Feb 24, 2015
Craft Beer Base brews niche following
Osaka has been going through a minor boom in craft beer bars over the past few years. This is undoubtedly good news for drinkers who want more than what's on offer from the big four brewers of Asahi, Kirin, Sapporo and Suntory.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / KONBINI WATCH
Feb 3, 2015
Oktoberfest comes early with Munchner Dunkel at Seven-Eleven
Those living in Japan know that when it comes to Oktoberfest, dates aren't much of a consideration. Past Oktoberfests have run anywhere between April and October.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 16, 2014
Pirouette, Craft Beer Market and more: some great new openings in Tokyo in 2014
The festive season is upon us, and 2015 beckons. But before we move on, herded into the Year of the Sheep, it's time to pause, celebrate and give thanks for the abundance of fine eating over the past 12 months.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Nov 22, 2014
Todd Stevens: 'No sense in delaying good things'
Craft beer distributor on sabrage, Cat Stevens and whimsical trademarks
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO BAR ADVENTURE
Nov 4, 2014
Drunk Bat: Attune your sonar to this cozy craft-beer bar
Admittedly, the only reason craft-beer bar Drunk Bat in Mitaka caught my attention was because of its name. For English-speakers, it comes off as amusing; for Japanese speakers with only a few years of compulsory English education under their belt, it can be misheard as "Drug Bad," which leads to some...
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO BAR ADVENTURE
Oct 14, 2014
Craft beer on tap couldn't be simpler
Opened last month, Pump is the newest addition to Tokyo's continuously expanding craft-beer scene. The interior is clean and simplistic with unadorned concrete walls, spotless counters and tables and a stainless-steel wall behind the bar counter.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO BAR ADVENTURE
Sep 2, 2014
Explore the many flavors of Belgian beer
While people comment on the increasing number of small-scale breweries and craft-beer bars in Japan, I can't help but notice that Belgian beer is also gaining a lot of attention — albeit on a lesser scale.
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MORE SPORTS
Aug 30, 2014
Silver Star storm past Blues after slow start
The Asahi Beer Club Silver Star overcame a sluggish start and scored 34 unanswered points to defeat the Bulls 34-14 on Saturday at Kawasaki Fujimi Stadium in an X League Central Division game.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 19, 2014
Bakka: Neapolitan-style pizza al fresco in the heart of Shibuya
Al fresco pizza and beer. It doesn't get much better than this in the middle of Shibuya. Who cares if your seat is a hard, narrow trestle, the view is an inner-city abandoned lot and the pies are served on flimsy paper plates from the back of a converted delivery van? You don't come to Bakka for home...
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BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 5, 2014
Sapporo forecasting full-year loss due to additional tax
Sapporo Holdings Ltd. said Tuesday it will post a loss for the current year due to an extraordinary charge in the form of a higher tax imposed on one of the beer and beverage maker's products.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / A TASTE OF HOME
Aug 5, 2014
Bowing out with a San Diego favorite — fish tacos
As a native of southern California, I have long lamented the dearth of good Mexican food in Japan. It's too heavy to take off here, people say. To which I have to wonder, then why not fish tacos?
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CULTURE / Books
Aug 2, 2014
Brewed in Japan: The Evolution of the Japanese Beer Industry
Newly in paperback, history professor Jeffrey W. Alexander's 2013 book charts the rise of beer in Japan, from early Dutch influence and the barrels brought by Matthew Perry in 1854 (described by the Japanese as "bitter horse-piss wine" — well, it was American beer) to today's craft boom.
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WORLD
Jul 28, 2014
Massachusetts monks tap ancient brewing tradition to sustain aging members
Tucked off a two-lane highway in a hilly, wooded section of central Massachusetts, a group of Roman Catholic monks has embraced a centuries-old tradition they hope can sustain their aging members in a world of rapidly rising health costs.
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BUSINESS / NOTEBOOK
Jul 15, 2014
Belgian beer festival; Edo-style cooling; cute Tokyo guide
event
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JAPAN
Jul 11, 2014
Riders chug on Nagasaki beer tram
Nagasaki Electric Tramway Co. is again offering passengers the chance to down a beer while enjoying the city's landscape from the safety of a specially designed electric tram.
BUSINESS
Jul 10, 2014
Beer, quasi-beer shipments drop in first half
Shipments of beer and related drinks fell 1.2 percent in the first half to a record low of 196.85 million cases compared with the previous year, largely as a result of wet or chilly weather, data released by the five major breweries said Thursday.
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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jul 2, 2014
Belgian beer, food and music
Who doesn't enjoy a frosty cold beer in the hot weather? This weekend you can drink to your heart's content, while enjoying a little culture at the Belgian Beer Weekend in Yamashita Park.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 26, 2014
Beer garden season begins with a hearty 'kanpai'
When the first Biergarten (beer gardens) started popping up in Germany's Bavarian region in the late 19th century, who would've thought that they would one day come to represent summer in Japan. Well, I guess it's not that unbelievable.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 26, 2014
Drink responsibly when you're out with friends this summer
Now that we're well out of cherry-blossom season, the next round of outdoor drinking parties will take us out into the beer garden.
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jun 21, 2014
Any publicity is good news for beer firms
At a Tokyo news conference on June 4, Sapporo Beer President Masaki Oga announced his company would halt sales of its Goku Zero alcoholic beverage after current inventory was shipped. The parent company, Sapporo Holdings, had been contacted by the National Tax Agency in January regarding the manufacturing...

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