Can't 'legally' call it scotch, but the whole original basis for the Japanese whiskies was to make their own scotch.
Masataka Taketsuru went and lived in Scotland to study scotch making and married a Scottish woman before starting up his own distilleries in Yoichi, Hokkaido, then Miyagichou, Miyagi.
Some of the best unavailable in the states would have to include Yoichi 10, Hakushu 10, Yamazaki 12, Miyagikyou 10, and that's just some of the single malts I've fallen for.
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