All Japan News Blog
2026-07-01
By Kosuke Kuji A collaboration project titled “Seijo” has launched, bringing together anime voice actresses and “Kokushu,” Japan’s traditional alcoholic beverages culture that has been registered a...
2026-06-24
Knowing the type of Japanese sake helps to select sake according to your purpose. The diverse characteristics of Japanese sake brewed across over 1,500 sake breweries nationwide vary greatly in flavo...
2026-06-17
By Ryuji Takahashi In recent years, prices across the Japanese sake market have been steadily rising. While it is natural for discretionary items to follow the upward trend seen in essential goods,...
2026-06-10
Yeast is a general term that refers to single-celled microorganisms (fungi) that propagates due to germination or cell division. Yeast has the effect of breaking sugar down to alcohol and carbon diox...
2026-06-03
By Kosuke Kuji A pillar of Japan’s cultural heritage, sake earned a place on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2024.And then there’s Japanese anime—another pillar of the nation’s subcul...
2026-05-27
As the term indicates, amino acid is the amino acid content - umami component generated from rice protein broken down. Therefore, the higher the amino acid content, the richer the sake flavor. Howeve...
2026-05-20
By Ryuji Takahashi Recently, I was invited by a group of small and medium-sized business owners to lead a sake seminar, and I hosted an engaging two-hour session. While I receive requests for sake ...
2026-05-13
Ginjo, a sake different in quality from our nation’s traditional sake, emerged around the end of the Taisho Era. Within a short time since, sake breweries nationwide started producing Ginjo. However,...
2026-05-06
By Kosuke Kuji Studying sake can take place in a variety of settings, from specialized classrooms to hands-on workshops, making it accessible to enthusiasts everywhere. A variety of organizations—i...
2026-04-22
Gathering information such as the type of premium sake, rice-polishing ratio, sake rice, water hardness, etc., can help to predict the flavor of sake to a certain degree. However, other indicators ca...
