{"id":133063,"date":"2020-06-24T14:49:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T05:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=133063&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-06-24T15:18:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T06:18:53","slug":"increased-home-drinking-leads-to-record-shochu-sales","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/increased-home-drinking-leads-to-record-shochu-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased Home Drinking Leads to Record Shochu Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kirishima Shuzo announced yearly sales of \u00a562.5 billion for the term that ended in March 2020, marking its first increase in the last three years. The Miyazaki-based shochu manufacturer reported that the recent stay-home movement had reduced the volume of bottled shochu consumptions at bars and restaurants, but pushed up sales of carton-packaged products for individuals. A total of 89,725-kilo litters was sold between Apr. 2019 to Mar. 2020. Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sankei.com\/region\/news\/200623\/rgn2006230023-n1.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sankei<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnn.jp\/articles\/-\/55365\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">FNN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/shochu1.jpg?resize=1920%2C1044&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1044\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-133066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/shochu1.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/shochu1.jpg?resize=300%2C163&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/shochu1.jpg?resize=1024%2C557&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/shochu1.jpg?resize=768%2C418&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/shochu1.jpg?resize=1536%2C835&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/tag\/corona\/\">#fukuokacorona<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/tag\/corona\/\">#fukuokacovid19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all of our Kyushu &#038; Fukuoka local news reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirishima Shuzo announced yearly sales of \u00a562.5 billion for the term that ended in March 2020, marking its first increase in the last three years. The Miyazaki-based shochu manufacturer reported that the recent stay-home movement had reduced the volume of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29452,"featured_media":133066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[5175],"class_list":["post-133063","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-corona","location-miyazaki-prefecture","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/133063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}