The Niigata Sake Brewers Association website lists about ... imported seedlings from France and made the pioneering efforts to grow the pear in Japan. “Shirone, the area where Koike began ...

With the price of rice skyrocketing, sake breweries are being left high and dry, struggling to procure raw ingredients as ...

The US administration's tariff policy has been the talk of the world. It was also on the minds of many attending a Japanese ...

The Japanese sake brand Hakkaisan will be sold at the home stadium of the Los Angeles Dodgers under a partnership agreement with the Major League Baseball team. Hakkaisan Brewery in Niigata ...

Niigata prefecture in Japan is renowned for growing rice, as well as rice-derived products, such as crackers, miso, and sake. Manufacturing these creates a significant amount of unused resources ...

High tech and age-old agricultural traditions are being used to reverse the decline in one of Japan ... and sake brewing, which in turn accelerates the outflow of human resources from Niigata.

Japan has long featured on European ... from skiing to sake. Comprising the prefectures of Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui and ...