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Sapporo is the oldest beer brand in Japan.
In a reverse of the common story of a German brewmaster overseeing the beginning of brewing in Asia, Seibei Nakagawa left Japan at the age of 17 at a time when doing so was strictly forbidden. His travels eventually led him to Germany where he learned the craft of brewing, a craft he would apply back home in 1876 as Sapporo’s first brewmaster.
https://sapporobeer.com/our-history/
And in the early 1900s, Japan (Hokkaido) was second only to the U.S. in canning salmon.
https://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/legacy-pdfs/leaflet230.pdf
As elsewhere, that industry has markedly declined in recent times.
[link, history, museum, JT]
Sapporo is the oldest beer brand in Japan.
In a reverse of the common story of a German brewmaster overseeing the beginning of brewing in Asia, Seibei Nakagawa left Japan at the age of 17 at a time when doing so was strictly forbidden. His travels eventually led him to Germany where he learned the craft of brewing, a craft he would apply back home in 1876 as Sapporo’s first brewmaster.
https://sapporobeer.com/our-history/
And in the early 1900s, Japan (Hokkaido) was second only to the U.S. in canning salmon.
https://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/legacy-pdfs/leaflet230.pdf
As elsewhere, that industry has markedly declined in recent times.
[link, history, museum, JT]
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