In 1918, Masataka Taketsuru, born in Takehara, embarked alone on a long trip to Scotland in order to know the secrets of whisky production. Despite his family having owned a Sake factory since 1733, it was Scotch whisky that always captivated him.

Thus, after a few years to deepen his knowledge of Scotch whisky, he returns to Japan and in 1934, he builds what would become the first distillery in Yoichi, a place he considered ideal for the production of whisky due to several aspects that resembled the city Glasgow.

In the following decades, his company studied and developed the first Japanese whisky, always with the premise of the quality of the distillate. Thus Nikka was born, a Japanese whisky, acclaimed worldwide for its quality, harmony and complexity.