Sake News from Japan
Ishikawa Prefecture celebrates a long-awaited new sake rice
The News24.jp site has a very brief article with accompanying video [50 seconds] from a news segment on celebrations for a new jizake [地酒, local/regional sake] brewed with a recently developed strain of rice. Ishikawa Prefecture spent 11 years developing the new...
Small price, big difference – how one sake brewery is handling the tax cut
Yahoo News Japan carries an article from KHB Higashi Nihon Hōsō about the revised tobacco and alcohol taxes that came into effect on 1 October 2020 [coincidentally Sake Day] and how one sake brewery reacted in a slightly unexpected way. Wine and the so-called “third...
Creating a sustainable sake supply chain
News release site Jiji.com has a press release from SAKE HUNDRED, part of Clear, Inc. [who also run the Kurand chain of all-you-can-drink sake bars and the SAKETIMES site] on their attempt to support sustainable agriculture. They aim to support their partner sake...
Domestic and export volumes for sake (and bad graphs)
Press release site PR Times has a report from travel company HIS who have announced an agreement to collaborate with Clip Creative to promote sake overseas. The HIS Food Project was set up on 29 June 2020 to support food producers, local governments and primary...
How to hold a brewery open day when closed to visitors
The Amagasaki Keizai Shimbun carries a press release from megabrewery Hakutsuru in Kobe stating that they will be holding an autumn online “open day” and event all day on Saturday 10 October 2020. After having to abandon plans for an open day in the spring, the...
Gifu brewery gives away sake brewed for Olympics
Yahoo Japan News covers a story in Asahi Shimbun Digital about a 150 year old Gifu sake brewery who found themselves at a loss… but turned it into a gesture of support for their community. Watanabe Hisanori, kuramoto [蔵元, owner] of Watanabe Shuzōten in Hida City, had...
Seasonal recipes to enhance autumn sake
Yahoo Japan News covers an article from Walker Plus on what might be a slightly premature celebration – but who can refuse some mouth-watering autumn side dishes to go with sake? The article focuses on Kubota Senju (ginjō) from Asahi Shuzō in Niigata Prefecture [not...
One boy band performer meets rice from one field and a Kyoto brewery
It’s not unheard of for musicians or actors to team up with breweries to promote sake, and local news site Agara Kii Minpo reports that Tachibana Kenchi of wildly popular Japanese groups EXILE and EXILE THE SECOND is doing so for the second time with popular and...
Hakodate, Hokkaido gets first sake brewery in over 50 years
Yahoo Japan News covers a story from the Hakodate Shimbun Digital on Hakodate, Hokkaido getting its first sake brewery in 54 years thanks to a collaboration between Kamikawa Taisetsu Shuzō and a local technical college. Kamikawa Taisetsu, headquartered in Kamikawa in...
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