200-year-old sake brewery teams up with Final Fantasy’s legendary designer for a very special crossover.
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Attending the company’s “forget the year party” is all but required in Japan, but there are ways out, say the people who came up with these five fibs.
The message is accurate, but that doesn’t mean it’s right, critics say.
Online prices for the soon-disappearing Fuji-sanroku Tarajuku Genshu 50 doubled in a day, but there’s still hope for those with shallow pockets.
With Halloween just around the corner, it’s time to take a catalog of some of the finest seasonal cocktails available at Tokyo Disney Sea!
The latest collaboration between the chocolate snacks and the Japanese spirit is almost four centuries in the making and uses one of the highest classes of sake.
Intended penalty for bad manners backfires, prompts pub to make drastic change to its beer pricing policy.
The name of the restaurant is Coffee Mafia, but it’s the poster for 100-yen beer that has our attention.
Japan is usually willing to look the other way about booze on the rails, but not this time.
Shockingly, a Japanese company deems it’s possible for it to be too easy for people to get beer.
100 bars and restaurants in and around the capital are part of bargain that costs less than two normally priced beers.


















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