Nikka's founder Masataka Taketsuru began with an apple-juice company (Dai Nippon Kaju), and Nikka continues to make apple brandy and apple wine at its Hokkaido operations — Japan's contribution to the apple-brandy story.
Japanese apple brandy
Japan
Japan's whisky giant Nikka began with apples — and still distills apple brandy in Hokkaido, a quiet outpost of the fruit-brandy world.