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Taiwan: Typhoon Danas Batters Southern Region, Leaving Widespread Damage 3

Typhoon Danas made landfall near Chiayi's Budai Township around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, July 6, bringing gusty winds and heavy rainfall to the southern region. Typhoon Danas weakened to a tropical storm after its eye departed Taiwan early Monday.

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Scotch on 'Alaskan rock'

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo bar LoiteR serves Scotch whisky with what the owner Ryota Nanba says is ice dug up from Alaskan permafrost. This so-called Scotch on ''Alaskan rock'' is part of a sales campaign launched by Kirin Brewery Co. to perk up the consumption of whisky in Japan. Kirin officials say the company, the distributor of Scotch whisky Shevas Regal in Japan, has contracted for 7 tons of Alaskan permafrost ice from a licensed U.S. dealer. The ice is being distributed for free to more than 600 bars in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya that are participating in the Kirin campaign, and customers ordering a Chevas in these bars can ask for Alaskan ice to go with their whisky. As sake and other Japanese liquors have been nibbling away at the non-native alcohol market, the consumption of whisky in Japan has reportedly fallen below 100,000 kiloliters a year from a peak of 380,000 kl in 1983.

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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 brewery unveils high-end beers for gift

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Co. displays high-end "Ichibanshibori Premium" and "Grand Kirin" beers mainly for use as gift products on April 14, 2014, in Tokyo.

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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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Kirin group to replace presidents of 3 key arms

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Kirin Holdings Co. President Senji Miyake, Kirin Brewery Co.'s incoming president, Yoshinori Isozaki , and Kirin Beverage Co.'s incoming president, Yoshinori Shuto, shake hands after a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 31, 2012. Kirin Holdings said it will replace the presidents of its three key subsidies, including Kirin Brewery and Kirin Beverage.

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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 Brewery chief warns of possible risks to merger

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Matsuzawa, president of Kirin Holdings Co.'s core unit Kirin Brewery Co., speaks during a recent interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. He warned of risks the planned integration of Kirin Holdings Co. and Suntory Ltd. may face when they review their product line-ups.

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Kirin Holdings executive Matsuzawa to take helm of Kirin Brewery

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Holdings Co. said on Jan. 26 Managing Director Koichi Matsuzawa (file photo) will become the president of Kirin Brewery Co. to succeed Senji Miyake as part of top management changes in its group.

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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 Brewery to launch friendly tender offer for Mercian shares

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuyasu Kato (L), president of Kirin Brewery Co., and Yuji Okabe, president of Mercian Corp., shake hands at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 16. They announced that Kirin will launch a friendly tender offer for Mercian shares for a capital and business alliance to create the strongest liquor business group in Japan.

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Kirin Brewery names Managing Director Kato president

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co.'s Managing Director Kazuyasu Kato (R) will succeed Koichiro Aramaki (L) as president once the appointment is approved at a board meeting to follow a shareholders meeting in late March, company officials said Jan. 16. Aramaki will become chairman.

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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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Kirin to sell 1 mil. yen whisky to mark 1953 coronation

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. said May 29 it will sell six bottles of scotch whisky (photo) for 1 million yen each to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coronation of British Queen Elizabeth II. Chivas Brothers Ltd. of Britain produced the whisky by blending mellowed malt of over 50 years, according to Kirin officials. The six bottles are among 255 bottles to be sold around the world.

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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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Aramaki named Kirin's new president

TOKYO, Japan - Koichiro Aramaki, senior managing director of Kirin Brewery Co., attends a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15 after the major Japanese brewing company said it plans to appoint him as president to succeed Yasuhiro Sato. His appointment will be formally approved at a board meeting in late March following a shareholders' meeting.

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Kirin names senior managing director Aramaki as chief

TOKYO, Japan - Koichiro Aramaki (R), senior managing director of Kirin Brewery Co., shake hands with Kirin President Yasuhiro Sato at a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15. The company announced that Aramaki, 61, will succeed Sato as president of the major brewery. The appointment will be formally approved at a board meeting in late March following a shareholders' meeting to be convened at that time.

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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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Kirin Brewery names Managing Director Kato president

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co.'s Managing Director Kazuyasu Kato (R) will succeed Koichiro Aramaki (L) as president once the appointment is approved at a board meeting to follow a shareholders meeting in late March, company officials said Jan. 16. Aramaki will become chairman. (Kyodo)

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Kirin Brewery to launch friendly tender offer for Mercian shares

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuyasu Kato (L), president of Kirin Brewery Co., and Yuji Okabe, president of Mercian Corp., shake hands at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 16. They announced that Kirin will launch a friendly tender offer for Mercian shares for a capital and business alliance to create the strongest liquor business group in Japan. (Kyodo)

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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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Scotch on 'Alaskan rock'

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo bar LoiteR serves Scotch whisky with what the owner Ryota Nanba says is ice dug up from Alaskan permafrost. This so-called Scotch on ''Alaskan rock'' is part of a sales campaign launched by Kirin Brewery Co. to perk up the consumption of whisky in Japan. Kirin officials say the company, the distributor of Scotch whisky Shevas Regal in Japan, has contracted for 7 tons of Alaskan permafrost ice from a licensed U.S. dealer. The ice is being distributed for free to more than 600 bars in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya that are participating in the Kirin campaign, and customers ordering a Chevas in these bars can ask for Alaskan ice to go with their whisky. As sake and other Japanese liquors have been nibbling away at the non-native alcohol market, the consumption of whisky in Japan has reportedly fallen below 100,000 kiloliters a year from a peak of 380,000 kl in 1983. (Kyodo)

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Kirin Holdings executive Matsuzawa to take helm of Kirin Brewery

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Holdings Co. said on Jan. 26 Managing Director Koichi Matsuzawa (file photo) will become the president of Kirin Brewery Co. to succeed Senji Miyake as part of top management changes in its group. (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 Brewery eyeing exports of Fujisanroku whisky

Photo taken Feb. 17, 2016, shows Kirin Brewery Co.'s mainstay Fujisanroku (Foot of Mt. Fuji) whisky. The company is considering exporting the product, possibly from 2016. (Kyodo) ==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 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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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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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. (Kyodo)

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Kirin group to replace presidents of 3 key arms

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Kirin Holdings Co. President Senji Miyake, Kirin Brewery Co.'s incoming president, Yoshinori Isozaki , and Kirin Beverage Co.'s incoming president, Yoshinori Shuto, shake hands after a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 31, 2012. Kirin Holdings said it will replace the presidents of its three key subsidies, including Kirin Brewery and Kirin Beverage. (Kyodo)

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More firms let workers take leave to chase their dreams

TOKYO, Japan - Shigehiko Yamada, 27, works at Kirin Brewery Co.'s plant in Kobe on Oct. 28, 2010. He made his dream come true -- studying English in Canada for three months earlier this year -- by applying for the company's new leave system allowing workers to take up to three years' leave for the sake of personal development. (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)