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The Japanese are losing their thirst for beer

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Bill Peterson
August 22, 2017

The Japanese are losing their thirst for beer. One of the country's major beer-makers says annual consumption fell 7 percent from 2010 to 2015. And the beer industry says it's a trend: fewer young people are going out for obligatory after-work beers.

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