Brewed in Japan
Subtitle: the evolution of the Japanese beer industry
By: Jeffrey W. Alexander
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780824839536
Subjects: Beer industry; History
Notes: First published 2013 in Canada by UBC Press.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: beer's evolution into a Japanese commodity; title: Foreign influences: the origins of Japan's beer brewing industry, 1868-1906; title: Keeping up appearances: maintaining beer's German authenticity, 1906-36; title: Brewing self-sufficiency: beer, empire, and the wartime command economy, 1937-45; title: "The taste of home": beer as postwar Japanese commodity, 1945-72; title: Learning from Japan: "Orion beer" and Okinawan consumer identity, 1945-72; title: Indigenous brews: innovation, entrepreneurship, and beer's continuing evolution.