http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/japan-pulse/big-only-in-japan-rooftop-beer-gardens/ Taking the pulse of trends, trend-watchers and trendmakers in Japan. Sun, 24 Feb 2013 02:42:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/japan-pulse/big-only-in-japan-rooftop-beer-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-27302 j3sei Sat, 07 Aug 2010 08:28:24 +0000 http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/japan-pulse/?p=4974#comment-27302 Was just reading some stuff about the Dutch in Japan and according to the author the term comes from the dutch birru. There are so many loanwords that making the simplification that katakana=english just doesn’t work.

]]> http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/japan-pulse/big-only-in-japan-rooftop-beer-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-27246 Chuck in California Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:07:53 +0000 http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/japan-pulse/?p=4974#comment-27246 Biya is the Australian pronunciation for beer and probably is the result of many Aussies frequenting beer gardens. Biru is closer to the U.S. and Germanic pronunciation and inasmuch as I believe it was the Germans who set up the Japanese beer industry back in the Meiji era, that is where the pronunciation comes from rather than from the U.S. occupation

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