Pursuits Weekly: Drink Till You’re Rich at Tokyo Bar for Traders

Original cocktails at Stock Pickers, from left, "Abenomics", "Lehman Shock" and "Margin Call".Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg

In the U.S., retail investors poured into Reddit’s WallstreetBets to get hot stock tips. In Japan, they have opened a bar where investors can thrash out stock punts.

The brainchild of Satoshi Uehara, the pseudonym used by a popular investing influencer on Twitter, Stock Pickers was set up in early March after a crowd-funding campaign which took in more than $50,000—nearly six times its goal.