TOKYO -- Nobuhisa Iwamoto says his family played an indirect role in persuading the Japanese government to loosen its restrictive brewing laws in 1994 -- a move that saw hundreds of microbreweries sprout across the country, eventually bubbling into the nation's first craft beer boom.
Hamilton Shields, co-owner and partner at Mikkeller in Tokyo, shows off one of the bar's craft beers.
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