While most of my activity is based around information about sake in Japanese that has not yet made it into English–this one has!
I was honoured to translate a report written by Nami Goto (former head of the National Research Institute of Brewing (NRIB) and current vice-chair of the Brewing Society of Japan) summarising a presentation by Yuichiro Murai (president of tane-kōji maker Kōjiya Sanzaemon/B’ioc) entitled “Past, Present and Future of Koji and Seed Koji”.
Other articles in the 2025 volume of the journal cover jizake breweries creating emotion-driven experiences and co-creating value, analysis of export figures, the sake preferences of French and US wine students and researchers, an analysis of retail point-of-sale (POS) data for Japanese wine, and a look at Japanese mead.
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