Tokyo hones the craft of the cocktail

The Japan Times, 25 January, 2008

To launch the Japan Times’ Liquid Culture column, I investigated the theory that the world’s greatest bartenders all work in Ginza.

“Nobuo Abe says it takes three years to learn the basics of bartending, adding that it takes a decade to become “satisfactory,” and more than 20 years to become a meister.”

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