Label of Sake

These whiskies are made by a company, SUNTORY. These labels are written in all English except for one label. There are many kinds of bottle style. Bottles in the middle picture are miniture bottles, about 100ml.

I think the reason why these labels are written in English is that whiskey came from foreign country so image of whisky is probably foreign style.

These whiskies are from foreign country. By comparing to Japanese whisky, there are some analogy. Each bottle style is unique and label is written in English. I feel Japanese whisky company borrows these styles to keep image of whisky.

One of unique bottles made by SANTORY.

They are nihonshu and shochu. Nihonshu and shochu are traditional sake in Japan. All of these are written in kanji and hiragana like a Japanese-style confection. Almost all of these labels are written with writing blush-style font. Bottle styles are generally the same: 1.8L, 900ml and 720ml are general bottle style.

Although it depends on a company, the back of nihonshu usually has information which includes the process of making, introduction of how to drink, company name, method of preservation and message which says that the age under 20 must not drink and please recycle this bottle. Although some nihonshu labels don't have information on the back, they do have necessary information like ingredients, on the front label.

They are nihonshu bottles and are sold for people who want to drink little like beer cans. The capacity is from 180ml to 720ml.

They are shochu. The bottle of shochu have many styles, even if it was the same commodity. The first shochu to the left has earthen ware-style bottle, Toki bottle in Japanese. It shows Japanese tradition.

They are unique bottles. The left thing is a sake barrel. The right one is a sake bottle which represents a zodiac sign or animal sign. They are nihonshu and mainly sold on January to congratulate a New Year.