Although still unknown, Japan is also a distinguished producer of rum ! It is in the tropical southern part of the archipelago that sugar cane grows. It is in the islands of Okinawa, Minami Daïto, Ogasawara, or shikoku that rum flourishes. If molasses mainly seems to be the raw material for the production, inventiveness is nonetheless present. Some houses are working on fairly long fermentations, like Hélios has been doing since the 1960s. Pure cane juice has already been used by the famous Ryoma brand or the Cor Cor house. The small artisanal distillery, Nine leaves, distills from its own production of brown sugar. Being far from other producing countries, Japan seems in its different approaches, to echo all the styles of rums that exist!