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 ...

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 ...

Sake, Japan's traditional brewed alcoholic drink, has been steadily trending overseas for some time. Sure, the painstakingly crafted rice wine gained a boost last year when the knowledge and ...

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 ...

Hands-on crafting and Japan's most popular copperware ... the fifth-generation owner of Obata Sake Brewery in Sado Island, Niigata. "All the neighbours know and support one another, creating ...

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.