The Kobe Shimbun recently reported on a “boom” happening among drinkers in their twenties and thirties: online nomikai. As we know, Japa....
4 Mar 11:34 am  from  Japan Trends   [Profile]  [Recent] 

I haven’t posted many bar reviews lately because I haven’t discovered anywhere ridiculous or surreal enough (although there’s a bar in....
24 Feb 11:52 am  from  Gaijin Tonic   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Nabe - Not too different from Jamaican soup back home My my my, it has been a while since I last wrote. In fact the last time I put a real b....
20 Feb 12:17 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

Hey, I’m DJing at a wild, all-night shindig in Tokyo in a few weeks, so I thought I’d plug it here. It’s at Sangenjaya Hell’s Bar on....
11 Feb 4:24 pm  from  Gaijin Tonic   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Went out to meet with some old classmates who’re currently studying in Japan. Ended up at an izakaya in Kichijoji where we had a tabehouda....
2 Feb 5:00 pm  from  Yonasu   [Profile]  [Recent] 

After hanging out on Takeshita Street for a few hours we went back home to leave our stuff and get ourselves ready for Roppongi. Even though....
30 Jan 9:02 pm  from  Yonasu   [Profile]  [Recent] 

A trip to my local convenience store today revealed not one but two new chocolate-based alcoholic drinks, so I felt duty-bound to try them b....
25 Jan 10:47 pm  from  Gaijin Tonic   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Japan has a serious cacao habit, which only gets only harder to kick as vendors push more chocolate prior to Valentine's Day.....
24 Jan 11:49 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

While most folks on the planet spend January staggering around, broke and bleary eyed, nursing month-long hangovers and waiting until that d....
14 Jan 1:32 pm  from  Gaijin Tonic   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Last night I met a Japanese guy with “More Beer” tattooed across his beer-belly. He was proudly displaying it in a live-house for all to....
27 Dec 2:41 pm  from  Gaijin Tonic   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Here’s a treat for Japanese readers- a clip from” Colpo Grosso”, a sleazy Italian game show from the 80s, in which some naughty ladies....
27 Dec 2:14 pm  from  Gaijin Tonic   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Here’s another interesting look at drinking alcohol with MyVoice. Demographics Over the first five days of October 2009 13,102 members of ....
19 Nov 8:16 pm  from  What Japan Thinks   [Profile]  [Recent] 

When Japanese civil servant Yoshiyuki Takeuchi started to lag his colleagues at work, he joined a growing number of his countrymen looking f....
18 Nov 1:52 pm  from  Reuters Blog Japan   [Profile]  [Recent]