- 酒場【さかば】 - bar, pub, tavern 
- 日本酒【にほんしゅ】 - sake (rice wine), saké 
- 居酒屋【いざかや】 - izakaya, Japanese bar that also serves various dishes and snacks 
- 酒屋【さかや】 - liquor store, wine shop, bottle shop, sake dealer, liquor-store owner, brewer 
- 洋酒【ようしゅ】 - Western wine and spirits, Western liquor 
- 飲酒【いんしゅ】 - drinking alcohol 
- 梅酒【うめしゅ】 - ume liqueur, Japanese plum brandy, unripe ume infused in liquor (esp. shōchū) with added sugar 
- 酒類【しゅるい】 - alcoholic drinks, liquor 
- 酒税【しゅぜい】 - liquor tax, tax on alcohol 
- 酒造【しゅぞう】 - brewing (sake), distilling (e.g. whisky) 
- 酒店【さかだな】 - liquor store, off-licence, bottle shop, hotel (in China) 
- 清酒【せいしゅ】 - refined sake 
- 酒販【しゅはん】 - liquor trade 
- 地酒【じざけ】 - local sake 
- 吟醸酒【ぎんじょうしゅ】 - ginjō sake, high-quality sake brewed by low temperature fermentation from white rice milled to 60% 
- 酒飲み【さけのみ】 - (heavy) drinker, drunkard, tippler, boozer 
- 酒造り【さけづくり】 - sake brewing 
- 飲酒【おんじゅ】 - consumption of alcohol (as prohibited by one of the Buddhist precepts), Buddhist precept prohibiting the consumption of alcohol 
- 酒席【しゅせき】 - drinking party 
- 新酒【しんしゅ】 - new brew of sake