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 ...

Niigata is home to the most sake brewers of all Japan’s prefectures, but as consumption trends change, many traditionally sound businesses are turning to a beverage originally from halfway ...

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

Niigata, which is north of Tokyo on the Sea of Japan, is famous for sake and sushi. At Niigata Station, Ponshukan is a casual sake tasting room with 100 types of sake from 90 breweries.

Sakurai and Basinger moved to Niigata on the west coast of Japan ... Purity is the goal of a sake maker, and in humid Japan this means constant vigilance against unwanted molds, yeasts, germs ...

On March 27, New York-based sake brewery Brooklyn Kura became the first U.S. sake producer to export its products to Japan ... a sake brewery in Niigata Prefecture. The collaboration began ...

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