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Miranda Kerr pulls crazy poses in parody of song by Japanese gravure model【Video】

Oona McGee
May 24, 2017
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The former Victoria’s Secret model hams it up for the camera in this weird and wonderful Japanese song about kissing.

Japan
(ads • beautiful women • celebrities • cute • Fumie Hosokawa • funny • gravure idol • gurabia • Miranda Kerr • models • Suntory • video)

Beautiful ukiyo-e woodblock print artwork appears on three of Japan’s premium beer brands

Casey Baseel
May 16, 2017

The works of Hokusai and others, admired for more than a century, lend a touch of class to your appreciation of a cold one.

Japan
(art • Asahi • beautiful • beer • cool • culture • Ebisu • hokusai • Suntory • ukiyo-e • woodblock prints)

New Suntory Japanese beer tells you what time to drink it

Oona McGee
Sep 26, 2016

According to Suntory Japan, different times of the day call for different types of beer.

Japan
(beer • drinks • hops • punctuality • souvenirs • Suntory • time • weird)

Tokyo’s tea taxis will serve you a cold drink while giving you a lift this summer

Casey Baseel
Jul 9, 2016

Suntory is adding even more hospitality to Japan’s famously classy cabs.

Japan
(cool • drinks • green tea • hospitality • Suntory • taxis • tea • Tokyo • travel)

Japan gets world’s strongest carbonated Pepsi, packaged in a new reinforced bottle

Oona McGee
May 19, 2016

While a one-litre (two-pint) bottle of Pepsi usually contains 1.0 GV (gas volume), these much smaller bottles now pack 5.0 GV in more than half the size.

Food & Drink, Japan
(Cola • drinks • fizzy drinks • limited edition • new • pepsi • Suntory)

Green tea continues to go alcoholic with new matcha liqueur from Suntory

Casey Baseel
Mar 26, 2016

Stronger beverage has almost double the alcohol content of last year’s version.

Food & Drink, Japan
(alochol • drinks • green tea • matcha • Suntory)

Now you can have beauty-conscious non-alcoholic beer from Suntory!

Kay
Mar 13, 2016

Who ever thought non-alcoholic beer could help you feel healthy and beautiful?

Food & Drink, Japan
(All Free • collagen • drink • non alcoholic beer • Suntory)

New canned sakura liquor beverage appears in Japan, courtesy of Suntory 【Taste test】

Casey Baseel
Feb 17, 2016

Sakura Sakuranbo aims to please with two types of cherry flavors.

Japan
(alcohol • cherry blossoms • chu-hi • drinks • sakura • sour • Suntory • taste test)

We visit the Suntory Yamazaki Distillery, the newly-renovated, boozy paradise

Mike
Feb 2, 2016

The whisky distiller, famous for upstaging Scottish standbys to be crowned “Best Whisky in the World” in 2014, recently renovated their open-to-the-public facilities. We figured it was as good an excuse as any for a tour and tasting!

Japan
(Japan tourism • Osaka • Suntory • Whiskey • whisky • Yamazaki)

Citrus-packing “Pepsi White” coming to Japan for the winter snow season

Oona McGee
Oct 29, 2015

When it comes to limited-edition beverages, Pepsi continues to rise to the occasion year after year. And just when we thought we’d seen the last of Pepsi’s seasonal releases for 2015 with their mystery-flavoured Halloween range, they go and announce a special Christmas present, with the release of a new Pepsi White Cola for this year’s winter season.

Japan
(Beverages • drinks • limited edition • pepsi • seasonal • Suntory)

Suntory comes out with sweet Lipton tea drink for Halloween — the Pumpkin Tea Latte!

Kay
Oct 10, 2015

With Halloween just around the corner, we seem to be virtually surrounded by pumpkins here in Japan. Not surprisingly, in addition to the usual pumpkin ornaments and decorations on display, we’re seeing a sudden increase in pumpkin flavored foods and sweets as well.

Japan has gotten into the Halloween spirit to such an extent this year that you can buy limited edition pumpkin-flavored tea in a bottle at supermarkets and convenience stores. And when a beverage involves not only pumpkin but tea from Lipton and a cute Halloween label to boot, well, let’s just say it gives us a lot to be happy about!

Japan
(drinks • halloween • Lipton • pumpkin • Suntory • tea)

How do 43 coins tossed through the air create one short but lovely song? Concentration!【Video】

Preston Phro
Sep 7, 2015

Music is, without a doubt, one of the most powerful artistic mediums humankind has. It can move us in ways that are hard to understand or even describe, eliciting everything from tears to vicious mosh pits. Of course, one of its most renowned powers is helping people concentrate.

Take, for example, classical music, which seems to help students focus while cramming for finals or aid tired workers in getting through a long day. So, to promote their new drink Shuchu Regain (集中リゲイン), Suntory has released a series of YouTube videos demonstrating the power of concentration. Today, we’ll be looking at “the world’s fastest orchestra,” The Extreme Minuet, played by having 43 men toss coins into beakers from several feet away.

Internet, Japan
(commercial • Extreme Minuet • Mozart • music • Suntory • ultra-fast video • video)

Will whiskey aged in space taste smoother? Suntory is set to experiment this month

Krista Rogers
Aug 3, 2015

Japanese brewing and distilling company Suntory Holdings Limited recently announced their plans to send samples of whiskey to the International Space Station in order to investigate the effects of zero gravity on the aging process.

Japan
(alcohol • drinks • JAXA • science • space • Suntory • Whiskey)

Suntory encourages responsible drinking with bizarre guide to declining party invitations

Mike
Mar 6, 2015

There are two types of people that, no matter how much they love the culture, are ultimately going to have a bad time in Japan: Vegetarians, and teetotalers.

Basically every meal in Japan has some type of meat in it, and the more strict you are with your vegetarian/vegen diet, the more difficult it’s going to be to find something to eat. Even supposedly vegetarian options sometimes contain pork or chicken broth or other sneaky animal product additions. And when it comes to those who choose not to drink, or can’t because of medical conditions, it’s almost as hard to get by, if not harder.

Thankfully, Suntory is here to help. Sort of.

Japan
(culture • drinking • funny • parties • Suntory • twitter)

Creator of plastic-bottle girlfriend has new invention: brainwave-activated inflatable muscles

Jessica
Aug 29, 2014

About a month ago, we brought you the story of artist Showta Mori and Lisako, his plastic-bottle girlfriend. Their forbidden love landed Mori in police custody for “suspicious behavior.”

Well, Mori apparently escaped incarceration because he has just released a new video in collaboration with beverage maker Suntory that promotes his latest invention: the brainwave-controlled muscle suit (ver. 3)!

Internet, Japan
(art • funny • Showta Mori • Suntory • video)

Toma Toma Sparkling: Taste-testing the tomato juice that will give you a hangover

Preston Phro
Jul 21, 2014

Last week, we brought you news that Japanese brewing company Suntory was releasing an alcoholic, summer-only tomato-juice drink called Hajikeru Tomato no Sake Toma Toma Sparkling, or just Toma Toma Sparkling for short. Some of us here at RocketNews24 apparently aren’t big fans of tomato juice, a fact which leaves the rest of us (i.e. the righteous and upstanding) baffled. Since it’s one of my top three non-alcoholic drinks, after orange juice and acerola juice, I was more than happy to take up the task of taste-testing this strange new concoction from Suntory.

So, how does Toma Toma Sparkling fare? Is it delicious, fizzy tomato juice that will give you a hangover or is it an abomination better poured down the toilet?

Japan
(alcohol • drink • food • Suntory • Toma Toma Sparkling • tomato)

Suntory to release new beer designed specifically for consumption with Japanese food

Oona McGee
Jan 28, 2014

There’s been a lot of research into the mystery of umami, the mild, pleasing savoury flavour that’s said to exist at the heart of Japanese cuisine. Often referred to as “the fifth taste”, alongside sweet, sour, salty and bitter, umami was first discovered by a Japanese professor and only officially recognised as a proper scientific term in 1985. Now, almost thirty years later, the delicate flavour is finally set to meet its perfect partner in a beer called Wazen (lit. Japanese meal). Due for release on April 8, the beer is being billed as “the beer for Japanese food”.

Japan
(beer • food and drink • Suntory • washoku)

New Diet Soft Drink “Pepsi Special” Released in Japan, Promises to Restrict Fat Absorption

Michelle Lynn Dinh
Nov 9, 2012

Pepsi will release a new cola in Japan that contains “fat-blockers” to help prevent the absorption of fat in the body. The secret to Pepsi Special’s fat-blocking power is dextrin, a fiber molecule that is said to prevent the digestive system from absorbing fat.

Japan
(fat-blocking • pepsi • Pepsi Special • Suntory)

A new innovative drink to come out from Suntory – but have they gotten a bit too innovative this time?

Kay
Jun 7, 2012

In recent months, we’ve brought to you news on several interesting and creative beverages such as fat-busting cola, salty watermelon flavored pepsi and Okinawa brown sugar cola. Now, major beverage maker Suntory Holdings Limited has announced another new innovative drink that will come on to the Japanese market on July 31. The new drink, called Espressoda, is actually a carbonated coffee drink! However, based on the response on the internet, it appears that Japanese consumers are not so sure about coffee soda as a drink. Read More

Japan
(coffee • food • soda • Suntory)

Get ready to rock ‘n’ roll with the new line of alcoholic drinks from Suntory!

Kay
May 21, 2012

Okay, so the economy may be down, it may be a drag go to work each morning on the murderously crowded trains (or the impossibly jammed highways), and you may be feeling tired of everyday life in general, but you can’t let things like that kill the rock ‘n’ roll spirit inside you, can you? Well, now there’s a new line of alcoholic beverages from Suntory Holdings Limited that will help you get back into the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll – in Rolling Stones fashion! Read More