If you are looking for originality in Japanese whisky while remaining in a deeply Japanese approach, check out Kujira whiskies. Grain whiskies made from rice, these whiskies take their roots from the ancestral know-how of the Okinawa distilleries in the production of Awamori. From this distilled alcohol specific to the southern islands of Japan, Shinzato Shuzo, Kumesen Shuzo and Masahiro Shuzo have applied the production and aging methods of whisky to create a unique product that retains all the taste attributes of a whisky. A whisky with Awamori accents, can we be more Japanese?