All Japan News Blog
2025-08-13
“Nama-zake” (sake not sterilized by heat) refers to sake not pasteurized once from pressing the fermentation mash to shipment, also referred to as “Nama-shu” or “Nama-zake.” According to the Japanes...
2025-08-06
By Kosuke Kuji The largest wildfire in Japan in over 50 years that scorched over 7,166 acres afflicted Ofunato city, Iwate prefecture, on February 25, 2025. Motoshoei Kitanihon Suisan Co., Ltd., a ...
2025-07-23
-From Kuchikamizake (mouth-chewed sake) to soboshu (sake brewed by monks) - Approximately 100 years later, Procedures of the Engi Era described a method that formed the basis for a step in the pre...
2025-07-16
By Ryuji Takahashi I usually visit the Shibamata Taishakuten Temple in Katsushika ward to pay my first visit of the New Year. The temple is busy on New Year’s Day with many worshippers walking down...
2025-07-09
According to the “Standards for Manufacturing Methods and Quality Indication for Sake” by the National Tax Agency, Honjozo is stipulated as Japanese sake produced by sake rice with a rice polishing r...
2025-07-02
By Kosuke Kuji A massive wildfire occurred in Ofunato City, Iwate Prefecture at the end of February 2025. Massive wildfires also occurred recently in the U.S. This wildfire was one of the largest i...
2025-06-25
-From Kuchikamizake (mouth-chewed sake) to soboshu (sake brewed by monks) - It’s not exactly known when sake was first brewed from rice in Japan. The earliest documentation of sake brewed from ric...
2025-06-18
By Ryuji Takahashi As cherry blossoms started to bloom in Tokyo, I invited wine sommelier Miho Nagato to a spring wine tasting event I organized at the bar of my sake shop. The theme of this wine ...
2025-06-11
Alcohol in Japanese sake (ethyl alcohol) is produced by the function of microorganisms called yeast. Yeast starter is yeast cultivated purely in large quantities inside a mixture of steamed rice, r...
2025-06-04
By Kosuke Kuji The slogan for super frozen sake is, “Transcend time to reduce any distance to zero.” Flash freezing freshly squeezed sake at the brewery preserves the fresh sake flavor for export t...
