Beer Makers Prep for Battle as Japan Unifies Liquor Taxes
Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)--Major Japanese beer companies are revamping flagship products and reclassifying quasi-beer items as beer as they prepare for intensifying competition following Thursday's unification of liquor taxes on beer and related products. As the tax rate change will narrow the price differences among beer, "happoshu" quasi-beer products and beer-like beverages known as th...