Elements of Japan’s craft beer revival mirroring that of U.S.
The weaker yen and an increase in consumer spending may stoke a Japanese craft-brewing boom that was already bucking a decline in total beer sales before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe began a campaign to stimulate the economy and end deflation. Shipments of domestic craft beer rose 7.7 percent in the first eight months of 2012 from a year earlier, according to Tokyo Shoko Research, while sales at Japan’s biggest breweries fell.
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