sites for manufacturing liquors, etc. Type of liquors sites for manufacturing liquors Licensed Sites sites for examination (included in the number mentioned) manufacturing factories manufacturers warehousing sites Site Site Site Person Site Sake Sake compound Continuous Simple system Mirin (rice cooking wine) Beer Fruit wine Sweet fruit wine Whisky Brandy Alcohol for material Sparkling liquor Other brewed liquors Spirits Liqueurs Powder liquor Miscellaneous liquor Grand Total (Real number) Subject of survey: sites licensed according to the provision of Liquor Tax Law, Sec 7 (Manufacturing license for liquors). Time of survey: March 31, 2014. Terminology:1 Figures in sites for manufacturing liquors are counted by type of liquors (including items, the same hereinafter) for which manufacturing licenses are given. 2 As for manufacturing factories, in the case that a licensed manufacturing factory manufactures more than one type, it is categorized as a manufacturing factory of its main product. 3 Figures in manufacturers are counted by type for which manufactures have manufacturing licenses. 286
8 Liquor Tax manufacturing factories of yeast mash and unrefined sake Type manufacturing factories Site Yeast mash Unrefined sake Terminology: 1 Yeast mash means yeast, cultured yeast which can ferment saccharated materials, or mixture of yeast (or cultured yeast) and malted rice. Time of survey: As of March 31, 2014. 2 Unrefined sake means fermented materials for alcoholic beverages before filtering or distilling. 287
sites to sell liquors and liquor distributors Under conditions to limit sales method to wholesale Under no conditions on sales method Total Site Site Site Person All types of liquors Beer Foreign liquors Export / import liquors Liquor sold over the counter Liquor sold among cooperative association Liquor of self-developed brand Own product liquors Retail with time limit Other alcoholic beverages Total Ordinary ones Retail with time limit Special ones Subtotal Ordinary ones Retail with time limit Special ones Type Items available only through mail-order sales sites to sell liquors Subtotal Total Intermediary Agency Time of survey: As of March 31, 2014. Terminology: 1 Intermediary means serving as intermediary of liquor transactions between other parties, regardless whether it is profitmaking or not. 2 Agency means serving as an agent continuously of a manufacturer or a distributor in liquor transactions, regardless whether it is profit-making or not. 3 Figures in the column sites to sell liquors show the number of sites classified according to the condition of licenses. 4 Figures in the column distributors show the number of dealers classified by the actual type of business. distributors *1 Licensed distributors under conditions to limit sales method to wholesale or those under no conditions on sales method *2 Licensed distributors under conditions to limit sales method to retail *3 All types of liquors *4 Other liquors 288
8 Liquor Tax Yearly comparison of licensed sites (In site) Fiscal year Sake Sake compound sites for manufacturing liquors Continuous Simple system Beer Others 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Total licensed sites for manufacturing liquors licensed selling sites to sell liquors Time of survey: March 31 of the following year Relevant tables: (1) sites for manufacturing liquors, etc. and (3) Numbers of licensed sites to sell liquors and licensed liquor distributors. 289
sites by prefectures Type sites for manufacturing liquors Regional Taxation Bureau / Prefecture Sake Sake compound Continuous distillation Japanese spirits (shochu ) Simple system distillation Japanese spirits (shochu ) Mirin (rice cooking wine) Beer Fruit wine Sweet Fruit wine Whisky Sapporo Sendai Kanto Shinetsu Tokyo Kanazawa Nagoya Osaka Hiroshima Takamatsu Fukuoka Kumamoto Okinawa Hokkaido Aomori Iwate Miyagi Akita Yamagata Fukushima Total Ibaraki Tochigi Gunma Saitama Niigata Nagano Total Chiba Tokyo Kanagawa Yamanashi Total Toyama Ishikawa Fukui Total Gifu Shizuoka Aichi Mie Total Shiga Kyoto Osaka Hyogo Nara Wakayama Total Tottori Shimane Okayama Hiroshima Yamaguchi Total Tokushima Kagawa Ehime Kochi Total Fukuoka Saga Nagasaki Total Kumamoto Oita Miyazaki Kagoshima Total Okinawa Grand Total Note: This table shows the breakdown of (1) sites for manufacturing liquors and (3) sites to sell liquors and liquor distributors by prefectures. 290
8 Liquor Tax (In site, person) Brandy Others Total licensed manufacturing factories licensed manufacturers sites to sell liquors Wholesalers Retailers distributors Wholesalers Retailers Type Regional Taxation Bureau /Prefecture Hokkaido Aomori Iwate Miyagi Akita Yamagata Fukushima Total Ibaraki Tochigi Gunma Saitama Niigata Nagano Total Chiba Tokyo Kanagawa Yamanashi Total Toyama Ishikawa Fukui Total Gifu Shizuoka Aichi Mie Total Shiga Kyoto Osaka Hyogo Nara Wakayama Total Tottori Shimane Okayama Hiroshima Yamaguchi Total Tokushima Kagawa Ehime Kochi Total Fukuoka Saga Nagasaki Total Kumamoto Oita Miyazaki Kagoshima Total Okinawa Grand Total Sapporo Sendai Kanto Shinetsu Tokyo Kanazawa Nagoya Osaka Hiroshima Takamatsu Fukuoka Kumamoto Okinawa 291