Issue 7: From the Editor
At 7:30pm on the evening of October 1st in Japan, happy drinkers synchronized a nation-wide call of “kampai” via the internet and televised it from three locations: Tokyo, Hyogo and Saga. October 1st is “Nihonshu no Hi,” or “Sake Day,” and while the industry has celebrated this day since the early 1970s, this marked the…