Misato Ushiwata

After Perry's arrival in Japan, foreign culture began to pour in at once, and Japan's first hotel and bar were among the commercial facilities to be built in Yokohama. The first bartender in Japan, the first imported whisky, and whisky as seen in Wirgman's caricature Japan Punch. The truth about whisky brought back by Tomomi Iwakura. The history of Japanese whisky.

This second chapter in the history of whisky looks at what Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry brought to Japan. Who were the first Japanese to taste whisky? Did Japanese samurai like whisky?, etc. We compile literature from a variety of perspectives: historical, economic, and lifestyle.

We will compile episodes of the birth of whisky, of which there are many theories, and compare them with the history of Japan. This page summarizes the history from 3500 BC to the release of "Ushers Old Vatted Glenlivet", the first blended whisky commonly known as Smith's Glenlivet.