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Japan’s Favorite Alcohol: Beer Outranks Japanese Rice Wine and Shochu
When asked to pick your poison what do you choose? In a recent survey, people in Japan were asked to select their favorite alcoholic beverage. The results, as we’ll see after the break, were quite...
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“RAAA”: The most appropriate name for a habanero pepper-flavored 34 percent...
Hombo Shuzo is a prestigious distiller founded in 1872 in Kagoshima Prefecture, the birthplace of one of Japan’s most beloved drinks: shochu. The company had won several medals at last year’s...
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Kick back with a glass of Godzilla shochu alcohol
Godzilla wants to pour you his own variety of shochu alcohol to celebrate his latest film’s worldwide success. To date, Godzilla has brought in US$477.6 million at the box office worldwide. Japan’s...
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We drown and freeze our troubles at the same time with alcoholic shochu...
We were feeling a little blue yesterday. You see, the RocketNews24 office is just a short walk away from the Isetan department store in Tokyo’s Shinjuku. Earlier in the week, we’d stopped by to see...
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Drinky: The South Korean robot ready to share a glass of booze with lonely...
With this mechanical friend, you’ll never have to drink alone! Some creative visionaries harness the power of technology to help people work more efficiently or to stay connected with friends and...
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Lettuce makes tasty booze and other discoveries at a new all-you-can-drink...
Lettuce shochu counts as a vegetable, right? Any shochu fans in the house? If you haven’t heard of it, shochu is a traditional hard liquor in Japan, which is distilled rather than fermented like sake....
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Amazing Tokyo restaurant offers all-you-can-drink beer plans starting at less...
This may be the best deal ever for fans of beer and shochu sours who’re tight on cash and time. One of Japanese advertisers’ favorite phrases is “one coin,” used to describe goods and services which...
View ArticleGoldfish style: The elegant way to drink shochu in Japan
Drinking method is beautiful to look at–and could help mask the taste of burning alcohol. First, let me get this off my chest: I hate shochu. I can’t stand the stuff. A distilled Japanese beverage...
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Alcoholic Coca-Cola set to go on sale in Japan as company enters the canned...
Japan likes its carbonated drinks with a kick, so here comes the Coca-Cola chu-hi. While Coca-Cola is readily available in convenience stores and vending machines in Japan, it hasn’t really conquered...
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Coca-Cola Company releases new line of alcoholic drinks in Japan, and we’ve...
Hard liquor is a key ingredient in Coca-Cola’s new line of Japan-only canned cocktails. Oddly enough, the name of the Coca-Cola Company is actually a little misleading. Yes, it does indeed produce and...
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Suntory’s brilliant new canned cocktail is made specifically to taste great...
Beverage giant seeks to make Japanese-style karaage fried chicken and chu-his an even better combination. Japanese supermarkets and convenience stores devote a lot of space to canned alcoholic...
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It’s a boozy bare-bones senbero from OK discount store!【Japan’s Best Home...
And this time it’s personal. For weeks now, our reporter Mr. Sato has travelled all over Japan – from Tokyo to Oita, but not much in between – in search of Japan’s Best Home Senbero which is a set of...
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Move over senbero, it’s time for a “manbero” with 10 times the money!【Japan’s...
More money, more problems. Previously on Japan’s Best Home Senbero, we witnessed the beginning of Masanuki Sunakoma’s transition from dark senbero lord to studious pupil of our Senbero God Mr. Sato. ▼...
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Exquisite Fist of the North Star shochu set on sale for limited time
Shochu and ceramics so good, your head will explode. There’s something about the post-apocalyptic martial arts series Fist of the North Star that lends itself well to hard liquor. That’s probably why...
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We turn this non-alcoholic lemon chu-hai into a mixer, find the perfect...
And shochu wasn’t it! When it comes to Japanese cocktails, in terms of popularity, few can beat chu-hai, which are made from shochu, sparkling water, and some kind of flavor, and when it comes to...
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Shochu brand Iichiko produces an anime short which leaves us warm and fuzzy...
The story focuses on a father-daughter relationship, future dreams, and how two long-running Iichiko poster advertisements connect them all. Iichiko, stylized as “iichiko,” is a high-grade shochu...
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New canned cocktail designed to perfectly pair with Japanese food, created...
Kirin’s Jojo Shochu Soda is here, but did the AI know what it was doing? There are a lot of canned cocktails on the market in Japan, but Kirin thinks there’s room for one more. One October 17 it...
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