If you haven't yet experienced the unique joy of sake, now's the time to take a sip. Known as Japan's national drink, this fermented rice beverage offers a range of flavor profiles and can be enjoyed ...

FUSSA, Japan, Dec 2 (Reuters) - At a Tokyo brewery dating back to the days of the samurai, Koichi Maesako drops a 3-metre-long wooden paddle into a giant, jade-coloured tank and gently stirs the white ...

UNESCO added Japan's process of sake brewing to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list. File Photo by Everett Kennedy Brown/EPA Dec. 5 (UPI) --The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...

Thanks to the prosperity of Japanese restaurants abroad, Japanese sake has been increasing its popularity. On the other hand, back in Japan the sake industry is facing serious challenges. The number ...

LUQUE, Paraguay — Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It’s brewed in centuries-old mountaintop warehouses, savored in the country’s pub-like izakayas, poured during weddings and ...

While traditional sake blending is used for practical purposes and cost efficiency, Assemblage, introduced by Heavensake, focuses on enhancing the qualities of each component. Heavensake, a luxury ...

Associate Professor GOTO Masashi of the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration (RIEB) is conducting research on the system of “tōji,” the traditional sake brewers, and the ...

Chiaki Takahashi and Tama Hirose’s homeland of Japan has about 1,600 licensed sake breweries. In Hawai‘i, there’s one: Islander Sake Brewery, which the pair launched in 2018. Until then, Hawai‘i had ...

Japan benefits from more than a thousand of years of sake-making tradition. The United States? Not so much. But even as domestic sake sales have declined in Japan, Americans are buying Japanese sake ...