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Energy Milk from Japan is the new way to power up your day
- Oona McGee
Oct 15, 2020 - Tweet
Move aside, energy drinks, there’s a new mother in town.
- Japan
- (BOSS • canned drinks • COK • Don Quijote • drinks • energy drinks • marketing • milk • SNJO • Suntory • taste test)
During trying times, receive comfort and advice from Boss coffee’s poster boy Tommy Lee Jones
- Eli Pang
May 30, 2020
No, Elvis is not dead. He just went home to shelter in place.
- Japan
- (Alien Jones • BOSS • Boss coffee • commercials • COVID-19 • Japanese commercials • Suntory • Tommy Lee Jones)
Hikaru Utada previews new song as she hikes through the achingly beautiful Japan Alps【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Apr 18, 2020
J-pop megastar returns to the central Japan mountain range with “Dare ni mo Iwanai” (“I Won’t Tell Anybody”).
- Japan
- (Hikaru Utada • J-Pop • Japanese Alps • music • Suntory • video)
Suntory would like you to buy a three-million yen bottle of Japanese whisky
- Casey Baseel
Feb 1, 2020
Release of limited-edition Yamazaki 55-year has us wishing we’d started saving up for it about half a century ago.
- Japan
- (alcohol • crazy • drinks • Suntory • Whiskey • whisky • Yamazaki whiskey • Yamazaki whisky)
Suntory creates cherry blossom liqueur to let us sip like it’s sakura season all year long
- Casey Baseel
Oct 31, 2019
Kanade Sakura is the newest addition to Suntory’s “Japanese craft liqueur” family.
Suntory’s brilliant new canned cocktail is made specifically to taste great with fried chicken
- Casey Baseel
Oct 19, 2019
Beverage giant seeks to make Japanese-style karaage fried chicken and chu-his an even better combination.
- Japan
- (alcohol • chicken • chu-hi • COK • drinks • food • fried chicken • karaage • shochu • Suntory)
How to use 1,500 cans of canned coffee to build a cafe in your office【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 13, 2019
A totally logical interior upgrade to SoraNews24 headquarters.
- Japan
- (Boss coffee • canned coffee • coffee • COK • crazy • funny • P.K. Sanjun • SNJO • Suntory)
Godzilla drops the CG, straps on the suit for awesome old-school tribute video【Video】
- Casey Baseel
May 29, 2019
Just before the release of the King of the Monsters’ latest CG slugfest, a team of practical effects geniuses take the kaiju back to his roots.
- Japan
- (awesome • Boss coffee • cool • Godzilla • Haruo Nakajima • kaiju • movies • practical effects • Suntory • video)
Tommy Lee Jones cries, says sayonara to the Heisei era in epic new Boss coffee commercial 【Video】
- Oona McGee
Apr 30, 2019
The one-night special will be screened on Japanese television tonight, on the last day of the Heisei period.
- Japan
- (BOSS • Boss coffee • commercials • Heisei • Heisei era • Japanese commercials • Suntory • Tommy Lee Jones • videos)
Suntory’s cat-shaped bottle caps: the beverage accessories we want, and you can get one for free!
- Casey Baseel
Apr 24, 2019
Two months after its tantalizing Cat Day joke, Suntory gives feline fans what they want.
Pepsi’s new Japan Cola has a special ingredient: one of Japan’s most delicious sweets seasonings
- Casey Baseel
Mar 14, 2019
Japan-exclusive soft drink has a citrus finish, but it’s not from oranges, lemons, or limes.
- Japan
- (COK • Cola • drinks • pepsi • Pepsi Japan Cola • soft drinks • Suntory • yuzu)
Salt and Pepper Gourmet Beer VS just putting salt and pepper in beer yourself【Taste test】
- Master Blaster
Jul 30, 2018
We find out if it enjoying salt and pepper in a beer is best left to the professionals or not.
Clear near beer is here! We taste test Japan’s new zero-alcohol, zero-color brew【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 21, 2018
Suntory wants us to drink its new All-Free All-Time at work, so that’s just what we did.
- Japan
- (alcohol • beer • clear drinks • COK • drinks • non alcoholic beer • non-alcohol beer • SNOJ • Suntory • taste test)
Two of Japan’s best whiskeys are about to disappear, and no one knows when they’ll be back
- Casey Baseel
May 16, 2018
Suntory had to guess how much whiskey they’d need over a decade ago, and they guessed wrong.
Suntory has clear, no-alcohol, plastic-bottled beer so you can drink at work without being judged
- Casey Baseel
May 9, 2018
Product was created to meet customers’ “various needs,” in this case enjoying the taste of beer while in the middle of your shift.
- Japan
- (All Free • beer • clear drinks • drinks • non alcoholic beer • Suntory • weird)
Grab a clear sparkling drink from Starbucks at a convenience store in Japan and get refreshed!
- Kay
Feb 16, 2018
A bottled Starbucks drink with a bit of fizz is coming out in Japan, and you’ll be able to grab one at a convenience store!
- Japan
- (drinks • soda • sparkling drink • sparkling water • Starbucks • Suntory)
Suntory explains the simple science behind how it makes its amazing clear tea beverages【Video】
- Koh Ruide
Nov 8, 2017
Video demonstration released to celebrate the launch of new Transparent Black Tea.
Are transparent drinks actually revealing “Japan’s dark side?”
- Master Blaster
Oct 3, 2017
Does peering into these colorless pseudo-waters reveal a deeper social problem?
Suntory attempts to mess with our brains again with new milk-tea-flavored bottled water
- Koh Ruide
Sep 10, 2017
Is milk tea still milk tea without the milk and the tea?
Work meeting isn’t going anywhere? Suntory suggests cracking open a (non-alcoholic) beer
- Casey Baseel
Jul 18, 2017
Suntory plans to install non-alcoholic beer vending machines in Japanese offices for workers who could use a drink while on the job.
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
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