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SUMMARY:Ruth Herd : War\, Whisky and Wine
DESCRIPTION:The story of Japanese whisky begins with one Masataka Taketsuru
 . Taketsuru arrived in Scotland towards the end of 1918\, sent there by hi
 s Japanese employer with the express purpose of learning how authentic Sco
 tch whisky is made. Taketsuru was fortunate in his encounters on foreign s
 oil. It was while a student in Glasgow that he met and married Rita\, the 
 eldest daughter of a family with whom he had found lodgings.  The couple 
 then moved to Campbeltown\, where Taketsuru found a mentor in Peter Margac
 h Innes\, manager of the Hazelburn Distillery. Under Innes’ guidance\, T
 aketsuru was able to observe and record every step of the industrial proce
 sses involved in whisky manufacture. After his return to Japan\, Taketsuru
  established his own distillery\, producing the world-renowned Nikka whisk
 y. \nThe success of Taketsuru’s mission rested on a concatenation of fac
 tors by means of which the three figures mentioned above were brought into
  each other’s orbit. Not least of these was the backdrop of the Great Wa
 r. This seminar examines the way in which wartime experiences shaped and d
 irected the course of their lives. It also touches briefly upon the shadow
  cast by the hostilities once the war had ended.
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/198927/ruth-herd-war-whisky-and-wine/
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LOCATION:Centre for Languages\, Culture and Communication\, Level 3\, Sherf
 ield Building\, South Kensington Campus\, Imperial College London\, London
 \, SW7 2AZ\, United Kingdom
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