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Driftwood Bar & Grill, part of Fairmont Tokyo's trio of bars on its 43rd floor, offers creative cocktails and panoramic views of Tokyo's Minato Ward.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jan 13, 2026
At Driftwood, cocktails flow to the sounds of city pop
Fairmont Tokyo’s new bar concept is an open space of three sky-high bars, including a classy area serving cross-cultural sips and a listening bar playing retro hits.
Singapore's Orchid Sake Brewery is one of the small but emerging number of sake breweries in Asia.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jan 9, 2026
Sakemaking takes root beyond Japan, from India to Singapore
A new breed of young sakemakers in Asia are reinventing sake by brewing with it indigenous rice and tailoring it to local palates and cuisines.
Women use a pipe to fill water from a bore well in a village in Alwar, Rajasthan, India.
BUSINESS
Dec 30, 2025
India’s water crunch brews risks for beverage giants
The challenges for the brewers in Rajasthan mirror a wider crisis across India, which holds 17% of the world’s population but just 4% of its freshwater.
U.S. investment firm KKR plans to finalize terms, such as the purchase price, and launch a tender offer in January for Yomeishu Seizo, people familiar with the matter say.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 30, 2025
KKR gets first negotiation rights to take Yomeishu private
A wave of corporate governance reforms in Japan has led to more buyouts by investment funds, management and founders.
Takashi Murakami's collaboration with champagne maker Dom Perignon marks the artist's first-ever foray into wine label design.
LIFE / Food & Drink / Kanpai Culture
Dec 27, 2025
A Champagne with notes of peach, citrus and Takashi Murakami’s flowers
The Japanese artist has lent his floral motif to two limited-edition bottles of Dom Perignon — just the kind of hip bubblies you’ll want to pop at the year-end party.
Bourbon-maker Jim Beam plans to pause production at its main U.S. distillery for all of 2026.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 23, 2025
Jim Beam halts production at key U.S. distillery amid bourbon glut
The brand, owned by Japanese alcohol giant Suntory, said it’s halting whiskey distillation at the James B. Beam campus in Clermont, Kentucky.
Asahi Group Holdings will take control of East African Breweries in its first expansion into Africa.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 18, 2025
Asahi plans first steps in Africa with deal to buy alcohol unit from Diageo
The deal covers beer and spirits operations in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, where beer demand has grown steadily in recent years.
A spice-infused matcha cake conjures up the flavors of Christmas with a Japanese twist.
LIFE / Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
Dec 16, 2025
Christmas brings the smell of cinnamon, cloves and matcha
Work the flavors of an “o-toso,” a spice-infused sake, into your green tea cake to create a delicious Japanese-inspired alternative to your traditional yuletide dessert.
Asahi Group Holdings said its monthly beer sales in November were down over 20% in Japan from a year earlier, a sharper decline than the nearly 10% drop seen in October.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 10, 2025
Asahi’s beer sales worsen in November as hack disruption lingers
Asahi aims for its supply chain to be largely restored by February after the September ransomware attack shut down key internal systems.
Under a draft legal revision, the offense of dangerous driving will apply when drivers exceed the speed limit by 60 kph on expressways or other roads where limits are set at more than 60 kph.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 9, 2025
Government proposes numerical criteria for dangerous driving
The criteria are expected to remove ambiguity in standards for what constitutes dangerous driving resulting in death or injury.
Atsushi Katsuki, CEO of Asahi Group Holdings, at a news conference on Thursday
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 27, 2025
Asahi CEO says ransomware attack might have caused 1.9 million data leaks
Exposed data may include email addresses and phone numbers, but credit card information is not included in this data exposure, according to Asahi.
Tottori Gov. Shinji Hirai (second from left) greets attendees while wearing a happi coat at a tasting event for sake from the prefecture, on Tuesday in Paris.
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2025
Tottori governor promotes local goods in Paris
The visit to the French capital was arranged based on Gov. Shinji Hirai’s wish for his prefecture to deepen its relations with Europe.
Industry professionals gathered in Kyoto to discuss sake at the Sake Samurai Summit.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 11, 2025
Industry experts weigh sake’s global future at Kyoto summit
Participants at the Sake Samurai Summit in Kyoto discussed how global enthusiasm and domestic headwinds are reshaping Japan’s sake trade.
Kohei Matsuo serves a glass of Asahi Super Dry in a Maruefu glass at Bier Reise ’98 in Tokyo.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 11, 2025
Cyberattack leaves Asahi struggling as rival brewers gain ground
The ransomware attack on Asahi Group Holdings disabled its internal system that handled all orders and shipments online.
Great Wines World features more than 260 top-rated wines curated by influential American wine critic James Suckling.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 31, 2025
Renowned wine critic James Suckling brings Great Wines World back to Tokyo
The event showcases more than 260 top-rated bottles from 150 producers, with a focus on Bordeaux.
One month after the cyberattack, Asahi Group Holdings faces an inevitable hit to profits, while competitors scramble to meet rising demand for substitutes.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 29, 2025
A month after Asahi cyberattack, Japan’s beverage industry still high and dry
Asahi’s output remains well below pre-incident levels and competitors are also feeling the strain as they scramble to meet surging demand for substitutes.
Suntory will gradually suspend the sale of 13 beer sets for winter gifts, including a set of Chinese zodiac-themed cans of The Premium Malt's.
BUSINESS
Oct 18, 2025
Suntory and Sapporo to halt gift beer sales after cyberattack against Asahi
Suntory and Sapporo will prioritize the supply of regular products over seasonal items, according to their announcements on Friday.
The award-winning Existing is Exhausting beer is a crisp and bitter West Coast IPA with a hint of sweetness.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 14, 2025
A bitter pale ale from Yokohama finds a sweet win at World Beer Awards
Libushi Bashamichi brewery’s award-winning IPA, Existing is Exhausting, was born out of a collaboration with a Shibuya craft beer bar and a local English wrestler.
Participants sample sake at an event in London on Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2025
Sake industry steps up promotion in Britain
The Times newspaper has published a feature on sake, and local supermarkets have begun selling the drink.
This year’s World's 50 Best Bars list features bars from 29 cities worldwide, including debuts from Eastern Europe.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 10, 2025
Tokyo earns three spots on World’s 50 Best Bars list
Bar Benfiddich climbs ranks, but Hong Kong steals the show with Bar Leone making history as the first bar in Asia to be named No. 1 in the listing.
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
India’s gig workers pay the price for exposure to New Delhi’s hazardous air
Rohit Kushwaha waits for a customer as he delivers his last parcel of the day, in New Delhi in January. His work as a delivery driver has helped pay the family’s bills, but has had a significant impact on his health.
Reform panel calls for easing data center building standards
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi emphasized that the government will promote reforms of regulations and systems that fit the artificial intelligence era.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
A French ship with close ties to Japan combines arts and sciences on the high seas
Romain Troublé, the executive director of Tara Ocean Foundation, speaks to visitors aboard the Tara during a rare port call in Tokyo in April.
In Kyushu’s far south, Senti.U sparks a culinary destination
Chef Yasuhiko Uchida was born in Saga Prefecture but has made his home in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, since 2012.

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