Picked these up at the LCS. I typically buy older items, but I made an exception in this case. Here are some close-ups.
Notice a pattern? Here's the clincher.
Maybe I'm the only one that gets geeked by this, but I love buying sequential bars, and bars with serial numbers that end in zeroes. And in this case, I got both.
I had never heard of Asahi, but apparently they bought JM a few years back, so now any newly minted bars that would have said JM, will now say Asahi.