Craft spirits from Japan · UK & Europe

Bringing unique Japanese craft spirits to the UK and Europe.

Through our unique expertise and experience, our goal is to bring the best small distillers to the UK.

Our story

Keiko and Mark on a deck overlooking Mount Fuji

Our story.

I met Mark twenty years ago, left Japan for Britain, and married a Scotsman who loves whisky and spirits. For twenty years we have travelled Japan each year — from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south, and everywhere between — tasting the country’s spirits and its culinary side. Not only the famous names: the small houses down quiet roads.

Each trip we brought bottles home for friends in the UK. They kept asking where they could buy what we had just poured — the amazing ones, the tiny batches, the bottles we had carried back from Japan.

So we set up Spirits of Japan. Between us we know Japan, how to move goods across the world, and how to build this. The best bottles we have ever tasted were small and almost gone. That is the house we look for. We find them and bring them here. Members get the allocation. Then anyone who loved it can buy more.

Keiko

The other half of the story

We are building this with Japan’s small houses.

Keiko’s friendships only matter if a house wants a partner it can trust: people who know how to bring a spirit to Britain through membership, retail, wholesale and investment.

If you make spirits in Japan, or know a house that should be here, this page is for you.

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How we choose

Small houses. A real history. Proven at home.

Who we are

Credible operators. Committed capital.

Experienced business people with international networks, sales and marketing expertise, and Japan in the room. Meet the people →

  • Japan in the room

    Keiko’s twenty years of friendships open doors that cold email cannot. That is how we find the houses.

  • The trade

    We know how to move goods, hold stock in bond, and pay duty. Import is our problem, not yours.

  • The members

    We are building a waitlist of UK drinkers who want first allocation.

How we work

More than one way to the drinker.

We do not lock ourselves to a single shop. Members get first allocation. We also sell bottles, work with the trade, and invest when a house wants a deeper partner.