Sake News from Japan / Sake Muse

The Tokyo Shinbun Tokyo Web site notes that Japanese food is rising in popularity overseas, and lifting sake in its wake. But one Shizuoka brewery has been looking outside Japan for much longer, trusting that the wider world would come to love Japanese traditional...

Abe Kasumi writes an article for Yahoo Japan News addressing what she calls the growing phenomenon of “Japanification” of food and drink in New York. The city already has Uniqlo, Daiso and Japanese beauty brand shops, but the trend is particularly visible in the...

Small but innovative sake chain Mirai Saketen is teaming up with Asahi Shuzō, makers of Kubota, to open a sake bar and shop inside the PARCO department store in Shibuya. The Mirai Saketen/KUBOTA SAKE BAR opens in the Chaos Kitchen restaurant floor on 22 November 2019....

Happy Sake Day! There are loads of events large and small happening all over Europe and the US, so I hope you have enjoyed, are enjoying or will enjoy one. Kanpai! What do the Japanese do for Sake Day? One celebration is the Nihonshu Go Around (abbreviated to NGA), a...

Pen Online features a series called Rules of Japanese Sake Men, illustrated posts about sake by author Shinji Ōta. In episode 19, he takes the long way round by starting with the name of the new Yamanote Line station opening in 2020 between Tamachi Station and...

The Fukushima Prefecture Minyu Newspaper site Minyu Net reports that the quantity of ginjō-grade sake shipped out by the prefecture increased in 2018 for the fourth year running, which it credits to its status as best in Japan for six years in a row. Analysis by the...

GetNavi Web proposes a simple four-step process to choose sake with confidence at an izakaya… which true to sake form ends up being not so simple at all as they stray off into lots of detail. But let’s see how far it can take us, and what the Japanese media are...

Takashi Funakoshi from the Asahi Shimbun China office has a long report in With News on the newfound popularity of sake in China. [This post is part 2 of 2.] Of course, the current popularity of sake in China can’t be explained just by Japanese government policy. We...

Takashi Funakoshi from the Asahi Shimbun China office has a long report in With News on the newfound popularity of sake in China. [I'll post this in two parts.] If you ask people in China what part of Japanese culture they like, the first thing you’ll hear is ‘anime’....