Sake News from Japan / Sake Muse

Yuko Mukai, an editor for the Ozmall site, writes about her trip to the "holy land" of sake, Nada.She comments that as someone raised in Tokyo, her impression was always that sake came from the Tohoku region to the north but for most people it refers to the Nada Gogō...

The Mainichi newspaper has a grim report on what many already know through stories and anecdotal evidence - the number of kurabito brewery workers is falling, as is the number of tōji master brewers, leaving companies both big and small squeezed for the know-how they...

Today it's the turn of a weather site, Tenki, to serve up some thoughts not so much on what you drink as what you drink it from. Musing on the warm spring weather bringing lots of hanami flower viewing and other parties, and plenty of appearances by sake and other...

A little late to this story, but it's in keeping with the recent cherry blossom theme and highlights a prefecture that doesn't get as much time in the sake spotlight - Saga. The prefecture has set out its wares in Tokyo and is celebrating spring with a slightly...

The Iroiro site features an article by Maki Nagasawa featuring a new packaging style for sake - in an iced coffee-style cup with a lid, and meant to be drunk with a straw. But will the youngsters go for it? (This isn't an April Fool, by the way - I saw these when I...

The Business section of IT Media Online reports on an unusual sake collaboration, between the familiar One Cup Ozeki and incense maker Kameyama. Kameyama make candles and incense, including the sort burned at graves in remembrance of the departed. It's also common to...

No, not toast as in kanpai. Toast as in bread. Apparently Tokyo is going through a bread phase. The Newswalker site reports on a recently re-opened restaurant, sister business to a bakery, that takes inspiration from Hawaiian experimental cuisine and presents its...

The Asahi newspaper site reports on the first sake produced from Aomori Prefecture's special table rice Seiten no Hekireki (晴天の霹靂, "bolt from the blue"). The first brewer to turn this non-sake-specific rice into sake is local company Momokawa, who released their...

I love it when two of my favourite things come together. The J-Cast television watch site reviews an episode of the late-night NHK educational Science Zero series that talks about sake and how science has helped it evolve over the years. The article credits the rising...