At a Tokyo brewery dating back to the days of the samurai, Koichi Maesako drops a 3-metre-long wooden paddle into a giant, ...

TOKYO – Japan’s sake breweries are staring down the threat of declining demand at home as consumer preferences shift to other alcoholic beverages like beer and wine – if they are still ...

TOKYO -- Japanese sake, which is set to make a UNESCO list for its traditional brewing technique, is in the midst of an international boom, with exports soaring 70% in three years. Sake plays an ...

Luckily, there is more Japanese sake available at local wine shops or ... “Before the launch of the new tool, we offered pre-selected tasting sets but inevitably, we had to guess our potential ...

An advisory panel to UNESCO has recommended Japan's traditional knowledge and skills for making sake and shochu distilled spirits be included in its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, putting their ...

A preliminary review of Japan's UNESCO proposal to elevate its craft of sake brewing to Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity status earned a recommendation from the evaluation body.

There's a set of unspoken rules that ... There’s even a saying used by Japanese sake brewers, “Ichi koji, ni moto, san ...

OME, Japan (AP) — Deep in a dark warehouse the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks, each holding more than 10,000 liters (2,640 gallons) of the Japanese rice wine that is the product of ...