Takamine is a new whiskey made with koji ... Dr. Takamine, who was born into a samurai family in Japan in 1854 and moved to the United States at the urging of his American wife, was far from ...

I cover beer and food. In 2014, Japan surprised the world when connoisseur Jim Murray made his pick for “World Whiskey of the Year.” Rather than something Scottish, or Irish, Murray gave a nod ...

The worlds of Japanese whiskey and American whiskey have been intertwined to some degree for a while—arguably since Suntory purchased Jim Beam and became Beam Suntory, gaining control of both ...