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2 unusual facts about Beer in Japan


Beer in Japan

The Dry Wars were criticised in an episode of the manga Oishinbo (the Gourmet), published at around the time of the saga.

William Bodiford

In his section "Acknowledgments" in his book Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan, Bodiford thanks the monks of the Eihei-ji temple in Japan who "kindly broke the rules" to teach him, before his university education began, about Sōtō Zen and Japanese beer.



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