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It’s not possible to tell the story of Japanese whisky without two names, Shinjirō Torii the entrepreneur determined to establish a domestic whisky industry, and Masataka Taketsuru who dreamed of making authentic whisky of the Scottish style.

At the beginning of the 20th century the two worked together to found the first of the largest and most famous distilleries in Japan today, Suntory. Ultimately this fraught partnership ended and Masataka Taketsuru would go on to found Nikka supported by his Scottish wife Rita.

This relationship serving as the basis of the TV drama Massan.

A Beginning

Masataka Taketsuru was born on June 20, in Takehara, about 60 km from Hiroshima. The Taketsuru family were sake makers whith a business dating back to around Masataka was expected to join the company and learn the family trade.

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Instead - he went to the city to study. In he graduated from Osaka Technical College in Organic Chemistry, Fermentable Foods. He then got a job at Se