Tomoyasu Masuda
Business
Liquid launch
In the second part of our new series, we look at what it takes to make a splash in the booze business with the help of some of our favourite makers.
Travel and restaurants
Simply the best
Cucina Hirata restaurant in Tokyo doesn’t over-think Italian cuisine’s main strengths: quality, simplicity and freshness.
Food & Drink
Eastern promise
Japanese whisky giants are world famous but it’s an upstart distillery, Chichibu, that’s winning all the awards and showing how to blend Scottish know-how with local ingredients.
Culture
Petit prints
In an age of email, the postcard is threatened but not in the museum world, where it remains big business. Monocle meets the teams behind some of the world’s mini masterpieces.
