Fuji to Hood brings together Japanese, American cultures — and 25 beer, cider collaborations

You might call Red Gillen the Oregon ambassador for Japan’s craft beer movement.

After spending years living in Japan, he moved back to the U.S. and in 2008 started a website, oshuushu.com, as a way to keep his Japanese language skills fresh and write about one of his interests, craft beer. In a few years, that morphed into Gillen offering Japanese-language tours of Portland-area craft breweries.