![Kujira 20 Year Ryukyu Whisky bottle placed on a gray tabletop in a small Zen garden next to rocks and a tree branch.](https://q182e5.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/fly-images/29772/Kujira-20yr-with-stone-and-sand-1-750x435-c.jpg)
Japanese rice whisky, as we’ve spoken to in the past, is a curious little category that is finding some traction among American drinkers of whiskey looking to try something new. There’s been a bit of a cottage industry domestically around rice whiskey for awhile, but some of the bottlings come out of Japan are pretty fascinating to consider as well. One of these which I recently stumbled across is from a distillery in the Okinawa Islands.