Ex-Asahi Breweries President Higuchi dies

Ex-Asahi Breweries President Higuchi dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 1999 shows former Asahi Breweries Ltd. President Hirotaro Higuchi (L) handing a report of the Economic Strategy Council as its chief to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi. Higuchi, who launched the brewer's mega-hit beer Asahi Super Dry in 1987, died of acute cardiac failure at a hospital in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2012. He was 86.

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