Whisky bar owner perfects art of mixing highballs over half century

Takao Tsuyuguchi (L), owner of Suntory Bar Tsuyuguchi in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, prepares a highball on Oct. 21, 2015, while his wife Asako looks on. The whisky bar opened in 1958, the same year as Suntory Whisky's advertisement mascot "Uncle Torys" was created. Tsuyuguchi has since perfected the skill of mixing highballs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA000050316

Registered date
2015/11/26 15:46:07

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source

Media size
2217 × 2908 pixel

Resolution
240 dpi

Deployment size
1.36(MB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

Whisky bar owner perfects art of mixing highballs over half century

"Uncle Torys," the popular character created in 1958 for Suntory Whisky's advertisements, stands next to a glass of highball prepared by bar owner Takao Tsuyuguchi in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 21, 2015. Tsuyuguchi has perfected the skill of mixing highballs over half a century. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ehime's "Mikyan" leads in online vote for most popular local mascot

Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura (C) pretends to protect "Mikyan" (R), the southwestern Japanese prefecture's mascot, from "Dark Mikyan," a villain character devised by Nakamura, during a promotion event at the prefectural government office on Oct. 8, 2015. Mikyan was leading in an online vote for the year's most popular local mascot as of midnight on Oct. 24. Vote count is set for Nov. 23. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Buddhist priest heads to hall for 9-day fasting

Buddhist priest Kogen Kamahori (2nd from L) is en route to a hall at Enryaku-ji temple in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 13, 2015, to practice the challenging exercise of chanting sutras for nine consecutive days without drinking, eating and sleeping as part of a seven-year quest for enlightenment. (Pool photo by Kyoto Shimbun) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ex-soccer player in Argentina running cafe in Sapporo

Photo taken at a cafe in Sapporo in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Oct. 6, 2015, shows a set menu of fried chicken cooked by Haruyuki Ogawa, a former player with Argentina's third-division soccer club Cambaceres and owner of the cafe. Ogawa joined Argentine third-division soccer club Cambaceres at the age of 22 but retired in less than a year without getting to play for them in a competitive game. He uses his own experience to encourage customers to take a chance with their careers and life dreams. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ex-soccer player shares tips on realizing life dreams as cafe owner

Haruyuki Ogawa, a former player with an Argentine professional football club, demonstrates on Oct. 2, 2015, his latte art skills mastered as owner of a cafe that he runs with his wife Namiko in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan. Ogawa joined Argentine third-division soccer club Cambaceres at the age of 22 but retired in less than a year without getting to play for them in a competitive game. He uses his own experience to encourage customers to take a chance with their careers and life dreams. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

6 popular mascot characters line up in Nagoya

Six popular mascot characters line up at an event in Nagoya, central Japan, on Sept. 23, 2015, where a decision was made to hold next year's national popularity contest for such characters in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. Second from L is Mican with a "mikan" (orange)-shaped face of Ehime, a leading mikan-producing region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Unique shop in Kanazawa fuses bookstore, art gallery

Owner Katsuo Mizuguchi explains on June 14, 2015, about his new shop "Books under Hotchkiss," which opened in May in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan. The two-story store near the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art is a unique combination of a bookstore and an art gallery. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Group seeks to keep alive legend of 'blue-eyed dolls' as symbol of peace

Japanese artist Ayako Kishimoto (L) shows on March 31, 2015, in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, her painting of the first and second generations of Japanese friendship dolls, which were sent from the prefecture to the United States to reciprocate the gift of "American blue-eyed dolls" from a U.S. missionary in 1927 as a symbol of goodwill and peace. The painting will be presented to the public library of Gulfport in Mississippi in the summer. On the right is Yasuko Tanaka, representative of a committee in Matsuyama promoting the exchange of dolls between Japan and the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Historic inn along Tokaido road shut after 366 years in business

Kazuhiro Aoki, the 19th-generation owner of the historic Japanese inn Ohashiya in Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, stands at the entrance to the time-honored inn on March 15, 2015, the day its 366-year business came to an end. Ohashiya is best known for being featured in the famous "ukiyoe" woodprint work of "The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido" by Utagawa Hiroshige in the early 19th century. The inn will be donated to the city government for preservation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo