Posts Tagged ‘wine’

Shonan Beach is filthy – stop littering!

NTV’s “Real Time News” aired a special report yesterday about Shonan Beach’s huge litter problem. Here’s an excerpt (subtitled in English):

A lot of the garbage, especially the glass bottles, comes from people who were drinking alcohol on the beach. Perhaps it would make sense to pass some strict rules about the consumption of alcohol on most areas of the beach, or at least make a very serious effort to enforce existing anti-litter laws?

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Wine Bath

Beaujolais Nouveau went on sale in Japan yesterday, so customers at the Yunessun spa resort in Hakone had a chance to bathe in a mixture containing some of the wine:

Beaujolais Nouveau, Anyone?

The first shipment of this year’s Beaujolais Nouveau, a type of French wine that only Japanese people seem to like, arrived the other day at Narita Airport with much fanfare:

A total of 3,500 cases of the wine, containing about 40,000 bottles, arrived at the airport on a special Japan Airlines cargo flight from Paris, and a customs inspection was performed. Under French law, the wine cannot go on sale until the third Thursday of November, which this year falls on Nov. 15.

Beaujolais Nouveau is produced from new grapes harvested each autumn in the Burgundy region of France. This year, fine weather prevailed throughout the harvesting season between the end of August and the beginning of September, providing ideal conditions for the grapes to mature.

Major retailers and other firms handling the wine say that about 8.4 million 750 ml bottles of the wine will be imported.