In my case, the extreme rarity of root beer has been a source of sadness.
What is it that makes root beer so overwhelmingly disgusting to Japanese people?
Okinawa was the one enclave of Japan where root beer could flourish thanks to the presence of American military installations there.
■ Different floats for different folksThere are likely other factors at play in the widespread dislike of root beer in Japan.
There’s also a chance of a genetic factor in Japanese people’s sense of taste which makes something in root beer stand out as particularly unpleasant.