Sake News from Japan / Sake Muse

Yahoo Japan News covers a different, more severe and more recent drop in sake consumption than the gradual decline since the early 1970s – a collapse in demand as bars and restaurants close as part of measures to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. Saitama may not...

A report in Nifty News edited by Tamaki Tokita points out that when you talk about Japanese drinks, sake is one of the first to come to mind, but the quantity of sake consumed in Japan been steadily falling for decades. It started into a mild decline in the years...

Excite News reports on a new app called Sakeist, designed to connect Japanese sake breweries with overseas consumers and sommeliers, with the ultimate aim of promoting sake and expanding its markets. It’s currently available for iOS and Android. Despite the relentless...

Sake pairing expert Marie Chiba, owner of GEM by Moto, was hosted on an Instagram Live on 24 June 2020 by Takatsugu Yamashita, co-founder of Minimal bean to bar chocolate in Tokyo. Takatsugu started off interviewing Marie, asking her about how she got into the niche...

Rumi Ide reports for Yahoo Japan News on yet another knock-on effect of coronavirus, this time on the agricultural sector and farmers growing rice for sake brewing. Asahi Shuzō in Yamaguchi, makers of Dassai, only use the most widely grown and prized sake rice -...

Yahoo Japan News proudly proclaims that it’s summer, and therefore time for sake highballs! It also gives some suggestions on how to drink chilled sake on hot days, while comparing different Kyoto and Nara breweries based on city sets available from the end of May...

The Kurashiki Keizai Shinbun reports on a sake bar in Okayama Prefecture offering locals a new way to enjoy sake at home, with an original range from local breweries in smaller bottles. Suiyōbi [粋酔日, something like “stylish intoxication day”?] specialises in sake from...

The global pandemic has left one Shiga Prefecture brewery high and dry after 10,000 bottles of junmai daiginjō brewed for export suddenly had nowhere to go. Domestic demand is low but it also costs them to keep it in storage, so they’re selling it in Japan as a last...

Aiga Suzuki reports for the Forbes Japan Career “Do you know this job?” column on a traditional occupation being given a new lease of life to allow it to carry on. The Miyasaka sake brewery in Suwa, Nagano, is famous for its Masumi label. But the young head of the...