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Kirin Beer New Beer Brand Presentation

Kirin Beer New Beer Brand Presentation. Hideki Horiguchi, President of Kirin Brewery, announces a clear breeze. =Date:March 26, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Kirin Beer New Beer Brand Presentation

Kirin Beer New Beer Brand Presentation. Hideki Horiguchi, President of Kirin Brewery, announces a clear breeze. =Date:March 26, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Kirin unveils lightest 500-ml glass beer bottle

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. unveils a 20% less heavy 500-ml glass beer bottle, Japan's lightest at 380 grams for this size, and a cross-section sample in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2014.

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Brewers release new 'happoshu' sparkling beer products

TOKYO, Japan - Major Japanese brewers release new "happoshu" low-malt sparkling beers with no purine or sugar content in Tokyo on Sept. 2. From left are Tanrei Platinum Double by Kirin Brewery Co., Oishii Zero by Suntory Liquors Ltd. and Asahi Super Zero by Asahi Breweries Ltd.

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Kirin funds disaster-hit fishery business in Miyagi Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Shota Abe (2nd from L), head of Fisherman Japan that groups fishermen in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, poses with other group members in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2014, after receiving a grant of 20 million yen from Kirin Beer Marketing Co. to finance fishery business. The group aims to conquer the impact of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and boost the local fishery industry.

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Kirin ramps up production ahead of sales tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co.'s Toride plant in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, ramps up its production of beer and other beverages, as seen on March 3, 2014, in anticipation of increased demand before the consumption tax rate will be raised to 8 percent from the current 5 percent in April.

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1st shipment from Kirin plant in Sendai since March disaster

SENDAI, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. President Koichi Matsuzawa (L) and Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai pose with cases of beer in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 2, 2011, during a ceremony to mark the first shipment of beer from the company's Sendai plant in about eight months since it was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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1st shipment from Kirin plant in Sendai since March disaster

SENDAI, Japan - People see off the first shipment of beer from Kirin Brewery Co.'s Sendai plant in about eight months in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 2, 2011, since the plant was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Kirin's beer-flavored drink logs 10 bil.-unit sales

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. President Koichi Matsuzawa (L) and comedian Tomomitsu Yamaguchi (R) attend an event in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2011 to commemorate cumulative sales of Kirin's Nodogoshi Nama brand of beer-flavored drink surpassing 10 billion units in terms of 350-milliliter cans since its launch in April 2005. Yamaguchi appears in the product's TV commercials.

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Kirin Brewery quake-hit Sendai plant resumes production

SENDAI, Japan - A worker puts hops into a kettle at a plant of Kirin Brewery Co. in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 26, 2011. The company resumed beer production at the plant the same day, more than six months after it was devastated by the March earthquake and tsunami.

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Kirin beer factory in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - A beer factory of Kirin Brewery Co. in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, is opened to the media on July 14, 2011. The brewery on the same day announced its plan to restart beer making at the factory, which was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, from Sep. 26, 2011.

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Kirin's latest Free beer campaign targets baby-raising women

TOKYO, Japan - A nurse (R) presents a woman with a can of Kirin Brewery Co.'s nonalcoholic beer named Free when she leaves the Ogawa maternity clinic in Yokohama's Totsuka Ward on April 28, 2010. The beverage company is offering the beer-like drink to women raising newborn babies to win over such mothers refraining from drinking real beer out of health concerns for their children.

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Kirin to close 2 domestic plants, boost sales by 2012

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Holdings Co. Kazuyasu Kato briefs reporters on the company's midterm business plan during a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 26, 2009. Kato announced the company will close two out of 11 domestic beer plants by next year to boost production efficiency on the back of a saturated beverage market at home.

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Brewers targeting women for beer sales

TOKYO, Japan - Sakurako Yoshino (R) and Natsu Mori pose in front of ''two dogs cocktails'' that they developed at Kirin Brewery Co.'s head office in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on May 27.

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Kirin Brewery eyeing market advance into Thailand, Vietnam

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. President Kazuyasu Kato speaks during a recent interview with Kyodo News. He said his company intends to break into the growing beer markets of Thailand and Vietnam in line with a plan to boost overseas sales amid the dwindling domestic market.

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Kirin to offer '3rd-category' beer-like alcoholic drink in April

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. President Koichiro Aramaki promotes his company's beer-like sparkling alcoholic beverage at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 8. Kirin becomes the third among Japan's four biggest beer brewers after Suntory Ltd. and Sapporo Breweries Ltd. to enter the so-called ''third category'' of the beer market.

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Kirin to launch test sales of beer in self-cooling keg

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. President Koichiro Aramaki (R) explains about a draft beer product contained in a self-cooling keg that does not use electricity or cooling devices at a media briefing in Tokyo on June 24. Kirin will launch test sales of the new product at select liquor stores in Tokyo on July 15.

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Brewery execs attend campaign against happoshu tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Top executives of Japan's four largest breweries -- Kirin Brewery Co., Asahi Breweries Ltd., Sapporo Breweries Ltd. and Suntory Ltd. -- gather Dec. 6 at Tokyo's Ebisu Garden Place to petition government plans to increase the tax on ''happoshu,'' an increasingly popular low-malt, beer-like beverage in Japan.

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Kirin reproduces ancient Egyptian beer

TOKYO, Japan - Waseda University Prof. Sakuji Yoshimura, a noted scholar of ancient Egypt, tastes on Aug. 2 the ancient Egyptian beer which Kirin Brewery Co. has reproduced from a recipe dating back to more than 4,000 years ago. The brewer has no plans to commercialize it but expects to release details of the product at an academic conference to be held in the United States in October.

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3 Chinese held over fake beer coupons from China

TOKYO, Japn - Put on display for the media at the Tokyo Customs Office on May 7 are some 13,000 fake beer coupons of Kirin Brewery Co. which police and customs officials say were imported from China by three Chinese students at vocational schools in the Tokyo area. They suspect the counterfeit coupons were produced in China and some of them have already been circulated in Japan.

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Presidents of 'happoshu' makers oppose tax hike plan

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Suntory Ltd. President Shinichiro Torii, Kirin Brewery Co. President Yasuhiro Sato and Sapporo Breweries Ltd. President Tatsushi Iwama give a joint news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 16. The three major brewers that produce ''happoshu,'' a low-malt, beer-like beverage, voiced strong opposition to government plans to raise taxes on the increasingly popular drink. Happoshu, which is priced less than beer due to lower tax rates, is attracting a growing number of consumers and has captured about 25% of the overall beer market.

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THE VOICE OF TOKYO

Hato Bus, foreigner, English announcement, bus guide, sightseeing, Tokyo Tower, sightseeing bus, Imperial Palace, National Stadium, National Diet, Asakusa, Kaminarimon, kimono=Date:April, 1974, Place:Tokyo,JAPAN (Credit:INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE/Kyodo News Images)

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Kirin Brewery eyeing market advance into Thailand, Vietnam

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. President Kazuyasu Kato speaks during a recent interview with Kyodo News. He said his company intends to break into the growing beer markets of Thailand and Vietnam in line with a plan to boost overseas sales amid the dwindling domestic market. (Kyodo)

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Kirin to launch test sales of beer in self-cooling keg

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. President Koichiro Aramaki (R) explains about a draft beer product contained in a self-cooling keg that does not use electricity or cooling devices at a media briefing in Tokyo on June 24. Kirin will launch test sales of the new product at select liquor stores in Tokyo on July 15. (Kyodo)

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Kirin to offer '3rd-category' beer-like alcoholic drink in April

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. President Koichiro Aramaki promotes his company's beer-like sparkling alcoholic beverage at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 8. Kirin becomes the third among Japan's four biggest beer brewers after Suntory Ltd. and Sapporo Breweries Ltd. to enter the so-called ''third category'' of the beer market. (Kyodo)

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Kirin reproduces ancient Egyptian beer

TOKYO, Japan - Waseda University Prof. Sakuji Yoshimura, a noted scholar of ancient Egypt, tastes on Aug. 2 the ancient Egyptian beer which Kirin Brewery Co. has reproduced from a recipe dating back to more than 4,000 years ago. The brewer has no plans to commercialize it but expects to release details of the product at an academic conference to be held in the United States in October. (Kyodo)

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Kirin buys Myanmar's biggest brewer for $560 mil.

Two men raise their beer mugs at a restaurant in Yangon on Aug. 20, 2015. Japan's Kirin Holdings Co. said the previous day in Tokyo it has bought Myanmar Brewery Ltd., the biggest brewer in the country, for $560 million as part of its move to enhance its presence in Southeast Asian markets. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kirin to ship draft beer fresh from breweries to consumers

A Kirin Co. official demonstrates how to fill a glass with draft beer from a home-use server in Tokyo on May 28, 2015. The brewer will begin leasing servers to households and delivering draft beer to them directly from its breweries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Major Japanese brewers turn to craft beer to rescue flagging sales

Sapporo Breweries Ltd. will launch in May 2015 this craft beer, a citrus-flavored pale ale product shown in this photo taken on Feb. 16. Like Sapporo, other major brewers such as Kirin Co. are also exploring business opportunities in craft beer amid flagging sales of their mainstream products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kirin subsidiary opens craft beer microbrewery, pub in Yokohama

Six types of craft beer are readied for service at a Spring Valley Brewery beer tavern in Yokohama southwest of Tokyo during a press preview on March 24, 2015, on the eve of its opening for business. Spring Valley Brewery, a subsidiary of Kirin Co., will also open a similar microbrewery-cum-dining facility in Tokyo on April 17. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan - Yokohama - Yoshida Bridge and Theatre Street

Japan - Yokohama - Yoshida Bridge and Theatre Street Date: circa 1930s

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Mountainous area at amanuma

The caption reads Amanuma Bluff, Yokohama in English. Copeland, an American born in Norway, operated a brewery in Amanuma Rinchi. In 1884, he sold the brewery, which was later reopened as the Japan Brewery Co., producers of Kirin Beer. The photo, taken from present-day Yamate Park, shows Mugita and Kashiwaba near Amanuma along the new road built for foreigners. A vendor with his merchandise rests at the side of the road with his baskets.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number3‐11‐0]

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Japan's 1st zero-carb regular beer

Kirin Brewery Co. President Takayuki Fuse (L) poses for a photo in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2020, as he introduces the new Ichiban Shibori zero-carbohydrate regular beer to be sold in Japan from Oct. 6, the first such product offered by a domestic brewer.

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CORRECTED Kirin Brewery quake-hit Sendai plant resumes production

SENDAI, Japan - CORRECTING SPELLING OF PREFECTURE'S NAME A worker puts hops into a kettle at a plant of Kirin Brewery Co. in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 26, 2011. The company resumed beer production at the plant the same day, more than six months after it was devastated by the March earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Kirin beer factory in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - A beer factory of Kirin Brewery Co. in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, is opened to the media on July 14, 2011. The brewery on the same day announced its plan to restart beer making at the factory, which was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, from Sep. 26, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Kirin's latest Free beer campaign targets baby-raising women

TOKYO, Japan - A nurse (R) presents a woman with a can of Kirin Brewery Co.'s nonalcoholic beer named Free when she leaves the Ogawa maternity clinic in Yokohama's Totsuka Ward on April 28, 2010. The beverage company is offering the beer-like drink to women raising newborn babies to win over such mothers refraining from drinking real beer out of health concerns for their children. (Kyodo)

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Kirin funds disaster-hit fishery business in Miyagi Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Shota Abe (2nd from L), head of Fisherman Japan that groups fishermen in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, poses with other group members in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2014, after receiving a grant of 20 million yen from Kirin Beer Marketing Co. to finance fishery business. The group aims to conquer the impact of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and boost the local fishery industry. (Kyodo)

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1st shipment from Kirin plant in Sendai since March disaster

SENDAI, Japan - People see off the first shipment of beer from Kirin Brewery Co.'s Sendai plant in about eight months in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 2, 2011, since the plant was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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1st shipment from Kirin plant in Sendai since March disaster

SENDAI, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. President Koichi Matsuzawa (L) and Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai pose with cases of beer in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 2, 2011, during a ceremony to mark the first shipment of beer from the company's Sendai plant in about eight months since it was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Kirin's beer-flavored drink logs 10 bil.-unit sales

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. President Koichi Matsuzawa (L) and comedian Tomomitsu Yamaguchi (R) attend an event in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2011 to commemorate cumulative sales of Kirin's Nodogoshi Nama brand of beer-flavored drink surpassing 10 billion units in terms of 350-milliliter cans since its launch in April 2005. Yamaguchi appears in the product's TV commercials. (Kyodo)

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Japan's 1st zero-carb regular beer

Photo taken Aug. 27, 2020, in Tokyo shows Kirin Brewery Co.'s new Ichiban Shibori zero-carbohydrate regular beer to be sold in Japan from Oct. 6, the first such product offered by a domestic brewer.

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Rugby World Cup in Japan

Photo taken Sept. 12, 2019, at Kirin Brewery Yokohama, near Tokyo, shows cardboard boxes packed with Heineken beer. Dutch brewer Heineken N.V. is a sponsor of the upcoming Rugby World Cup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby World Cup in Japan

Photo taken Sept. 12, 2019, at Kirin Brewery Yokohama, near Tokyo, shows Heineken beer bottles with labels featuring the Webb Ellis Cup. Dutch brewer Heineken N.V. is a sponsor of the international games. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Heineken beer sales target during Rugby World Cup

Heineken Kirin K.K., the Japanese distributor of Heineken beer, says in Tokyo on June 4, 2019 that it aims at a 70 percent year-on-year increase in sales between September and November, when the Rugby World Cup will be held in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese canned beer

Cans of beer (From L) of Asahi Breweries Ltd., Sapporo Breweries Ltd., and Kirin Co. sit on a shelf of a supermarket store in Tokyo on Feb. 1, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese canned beer

Cans of beer (From L) of Asahi Breweries Ltd., Sapporo Breweries Ltd., and Kirin Co. sit on a shelf of a supermarket store in Tokyo on Feb. 1, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Beer restaurants run by Kirin Brewery

Sakurako Yoshino, marketing manager of beer restaurant chain Spring Valley Brewery, run by Kirin Brewery Co., speaks about her business at an outlet in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kirin to close 2 domestic plants, boost sales by 2012

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Holdings Co. Kazuyasu Kato briefs reporters on the company's midterm business plan during a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 26, 2009. Kato announced the company will close two out of 11 domestic beer plants by next year to boost production efficiency on the back of a saturated beverage market at home. (Kyodo)

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Brewery execs attend campaign against happoshu tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Top executives of Japan's four largest breweries -- Kirin Brewery Co., Asahi Breweries Ltd., Sapporo Breweries Ltd. and Suntory Ltd. -- gather Dec. 6 at Tokyo's Ebisu Garden Place to petition government plans to increase the tax on ''happoshu,'' an increasingly popular low-malt, beer-like beverage in Japan. (Kyodo)

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3 Chinese held over fake beer coupons from China

TOKYO, Japn - Put on display for the media at the Tokyo Customs Office on May 7 are some 13,000 fake beer coupons of Kirin Brewery Co. which police and customs officials say were imported from China by three Chinese students at vocational schools in the Tokyo area. They suspect the counterfeit coupons were produced in China and some of them have already been circulated in Japan.