Sake News from Japan / Sake Muse

The Mainichi Newspaper reports on sake breweries stepping up their accessibility for tourists ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. The article states that Japanese sake breweries are putting effort into both increasing exports of sake and "sakagura...

The site Pouch reports on more labels and more crowdfunding - this time for two sake with labels showing icons from the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Writer Tabata Anji comments that although Shibuya is usually in the top two when it comes to places to see in Tokyo, it...

The Sanyo News site reports on a way to make sure recipients of a gift of sake take it the right way - a message on the bottle. The Muromachi brewery in Akaiwa City, Okayama Prefecture, has started using labels on its sake with messages specific to Coming of Age Day...

The Daily Sun New York site reports on Japan Airlines' (JAL) wine and sake selection for First and Business Class passengers in 2018. The selection includes wines not only from Europe but from all over the world, including Japan. JAL is advised by a team of two:...

The Mainichi Shinbun reports on a brewery close to the edge. The Kochi brewery in Ino, Kochi Prefecture has made an application to the Kochi district court under the Japanese Civil Rehabilitation Act, which covers restructuring businesses in financial difficulty....

The Mainichi Shinbun reports on a New Year speech by Yoshimura Mieko, governor of Yamagata Prefecture, given to public servants and businesses at the prefectural hall as Japan got back to work on 4 January 2018. She spoke about the prefecture's successful bid to host...

You Pouch reports on another sake crowdfunding project (not sure if the news alerts I get are somehow biased towards crowdfunding...) - this time a brewery from Akita Prefecture using yeast from the area's distinctive white lavender. The sake is made with the...

The Nihon Keizai Shinbun reports on a brewery hit by disaster last February, and their recovery through crowdfunding. The long-standing Nakayama brewery in Mie Prefecture was razed by fire in February 2017, but reopened less than a year later thanks to crowdfunding....

Today's story is in Japanese, but not strictly speaking from Japan - it's from the Sao Paulo Shinbun, a Japanese newspaper in Brazil. Their New Year special edition has a report on a Brazilian with a special place in his heart for sake. The article focuses on Latin...