As I had hoped, living in Singapore and spending time in Asia is giving me access to some Japanese whiskies I had never seen before (or even knew existed).  I found this no age expression Hakushu in an airport lounge in Tokyo.  As the entire label was in Japanese I could not determine ABV or anything else for that matter and given the fact I was in transit and rather tired my palatte may have been a bit "off".  The nose has freshly cut pine wood, sweet bananas and lemon.  The taste is quite and peppery and needed a drop of water to settle down and reveal more lemon and some caramel which lingered into the finish.  Overall young and feisty but still very nice and I would like to try this again sometime as I seemed to miss the famous Hakushu peat notes