Aeon Supermarket, Japan
With the on-coming onslaught of the unbearably humid Japanese summer Beer manufacturers in Japan are finding ways to maximise their sales, and big supermarket chain Aeon recently launched a ￥88 ($1) daisan (beer-like drink) onto the market.
Tax on alcohol is (compared to say the UK) very cheap, with whiskeys and… Continue reading
Japanese Blue Beer
One of the bigger supermarkets around here (Hankyu) is having a Hokkaido Fair at the moment with speciality food and craft beers from the region.
Hokkaido, for those that don’t know, is the northern most of the 4 main Japan islands, where Sapporo Beer is from (Sapporo city is kind… Continue reading
Japanese Football Team Colours
As anyone who has a passing interest in football – and that doesn’t describe me – knows, there’s the World Cup taking place this year in South Africa.
Now, I have no interest in football, but I do have perhaps more than a passing interest in… Continue reading
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.
Japanese Happoshu
Thankfully, an article in the Daily Yomiuri yesterday cleared it up for me.
The reason Japan has 3 different categories of beer is… Continue reading
It’s Valentines Day soon, and in Japan they do Valentines Day a little different to the West (let’s face it, in Japan they do a lot of things different to the west!).
Here it’s kind of reversed.
Instead of boyfriends, husbands, etc buying flowers, jewellery or lingerie for their respective partners, in Japan it’s the girls job to make or buy chocolates to give to the man in… Continue reading
