Suntory Limited’s 50-Year Old Yamazaki is the highest-priced single malt whisky in Japan. Crafted from Japanese malted barley at the Yamazaki distillery in the early 1950s, the key malt that forms the base spirit for this ultra-rare whisky was prepared with Yamazaki’s signature water, fermented, and then distilled in first edition Japanese pot stills. The […]

Suntory Holdings Limited has introduced three luxurious whiskies in boxes made from fine Japanese timber. The beautifully hand-crafted packages are built from Paulownia, a wood native to Japan. Included in each box are three different bottles of alcohol ranging from 18 years (for the Yamazaki expression) to 21 years (for Hibiki). Each box contains two […]

For many Americans, their introduction to Japanese anime came via the epic Star Blazers series in the 80s, known as Space Battleship Yamato in Japan and the rest of the world. Premiering a couple years before Robotech, Star Blazers was eons ahead of its American counterparts (have they ever caught up?), telling an opera in […]