OKAYA, Nagano Prefecture--Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi checks the temperature of the mixture fermenting at her family’s 150-year-old sake brewery, Koten, nestled in ...

OSAKA, Japan—The Japanese have been drinking sake since the eighth century. Back then, it was believed the rice-based liquor ...

The big cedar-leaves ball hanging under the eaves is a symbol of a shrine for the god of sake-making. In Japan, sake is used to purify and to celebrate. Sips from a cup signify the sealing of a ...

Maesako hopes the UN body’s recognition of the traditional brewing technique will turn things around by igniting demand overseas, where sake has slowly gained popularity alongside Japanese ...

Exports of sake have been rocketing in recent years, as foreign drinkers develop a taste for the rice brew. But as one recent tasting competition showed, it's not just the Japanese stuff that's ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Gozenshu Brewery is one of the few in Japan using bodaimoto, a 600-year-old fermentation method, to make sake. They use it to make junmai, or pure rice sake ...

This photo shows a bottle of the sake Seafood on display at the brewing facility of Imada Sake Brewing Co. in Akitsu, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Feb. 13, 2025. (Kyodo) HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) -- When ...

It was also on the minds of many attending a Japanese sake-tasting event in New York. The Joy of Sake event was held in Manhattan on Thursday. Organized by a US nonprofit, it featured over 500 ...