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Keiichi Iyama was chosen as a contemporary master craftsman by the government in November 2020. (Teruto Unuma)
SAKATA, Yamagata Prefecture The last call came on May 10 for Japan s oldest bartender, Keiichi Iyama, who invented the world-famous Yukiguni cocktail and was the subject of a 2018 documentary film.
Iyama, who proudly served customers for seven decades here, died at the age of 95 of natural causes.
Koichi Sato, 43, a videographer, who filmed Iyama over two and half years for the “Yukiguni” film, called his death a loss for the community.
“He let others come inside the counter freely and was the kind of person who even strangers came to love,” Sato said. “He was also a walking encyclopedia on Sakata city. I feel sad as if we have lost an entire library.”
JapanKoichi-satoKeiichi-iyamaYamagata-prefecture-theஜப்பான்கொவீசி-ஸாடோDuring the first coronavirus shutdown in Japan last year, Daihachi Yoshida had an epiphany.
“I live in the suburbs, and when I went to a local bookstore, the queue for the cash register was longer than I’d ever seen before,” he recalls. “Everyone had been staying at home, and they’d gotten sick of watching TV, so they’d go there…. It gave me a bit of encouragement: in times like that, people still come back to books.”
The public’s reading habits are a subject of particular interest to the 57-year-old filmmaker, whose latest movie takes a deep dive into the troubled waters of Japan’s publishing industry.
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