Recently I blogged about the Sapporo/Royce Chocolate beer for Valentines day and there seems to be a spate of other chocolate based beers and cocktails released this year in Japan.
Recently I found this Chocolat Cocktail from Asahi which is a Rum and Chocolate based cocktail.
I bought it initially for my wife as she likes sweet [...]
They have this thing they do in Japan after New Years, called Lucky Bags.
Basically, shops, etc make up bags full of stuff which they sell for anything from ￥1000-￥100,000 or more. I read somewhere that this year one firm was selling 2 bags for over a millions that included a robot that they would build [...]
I found these in a folder on my computer the other day, can’t remember where I found them, somewhere on the old internet…
I love the style of them.
This question bugged me for quite a while when I first discovered that Japan has 3 categories of beer, and I don’t mean lager, beer, bitter, etc.
Thankfully, an article in the Daily Yomiuri yesterday cleared it up for me.
The reason Japan has 3 different categories of beer is essentially for tax reasons.
Regular beer which must [...]
One of the great things about Asahi having so many fingers in so many pies here in Japan (they seem to make and sell just about everything), you get a little present from them when you subscribe to their newspaper, Asahi Shinbun for a year.
So I was very pleased last Sunday when this was delivered [...]
