Portrait of Kazuaki Nagao
i. Biography
Kazuaki Nagao is a manager and bartender at Bar Libre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, where he appears alongside owner Yujiro Kiyosaki in coverage of the bar’s modern, technique-driven cocktail program. He has been publicly presented as a Bar Libre bartender/manager in the bar’s own website presence and in beverage-industry media, including a BAR TIMES STORE demonstration in which he identified himself as Kazu Nagao, the manager of Bar Libre. Bar Libre was ranked No. 49 in Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025, with Nagao cited as part of the leadership team.
