All Japan News Blog
2022-06-08
By Kosuke Kuji The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics were held this year. The festive mood seemed to continue as the games were held approximately six months after the Tokyo Summer Olympics...
2022-06-01
Yashiori sake is the first sake mentioned in Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters), Nihonshoki (Chronicles of Japan), “Kiki-shinwa” (Mythology) in “Yamatano-orochi: Eight-headed, Eight-tailed Serpent.” ...
2022-05-25
By Ryuji Takahashi Nakatani Brewing Co., Ltd. is a long-established sake brewery operating since the Edo period (1603-1867). Located in Yamato-koriyama city, Nara prefecture, the brewery’s sake produc...
2022-05-18
By Yuji Matsumoto While sake and food pairing is now the norm, why not try to change your perception in your approach? While comparisons are made regularly, wine is compared to other wine, sake is com...
2022-05-11
By Kosuke Kuji Shocking news of Russia invading Ukraine rattled Japan in the end of February 2022. A nation that relinquished war based on the three non-nuclear principles and Article 9 of the Japanes...
2022-05-04
Kuchi-kami sake is produced by chewing grains such as rice or seed in the mouth, spit out, and left as is, documented in the “Oosumikoku-fudoki.” Geographically, kuchi-kami sake spread from the South ...
2022-04-27
By Ryuji Takahashi Sake shop Ji Sakeya opened in the neighboring town of Hatsudai in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo six years ago. Our sake shop is still surviving while many businesses closed their doors...
2022-04-20
By Yuji Matsumoto Japanese sake is still a largely unfamiliar beverage to American consumers. Ninety percent of sake is consumed in restaurants, indicating the unfortunate reality that sake is still f...
2022-04-13
By Kosuke Kuji The last issue covered craft gin. This issue covers craft vodka. When we obtained a license to produce spirits, the spirits we were permitted to distill did not include “vodka” at the t...
2022-04-06
Chapter 1: What is the Origin of Sake? Introduction Sake production (brewing) requires rice “molded” with rice malt, thus the same classification as Chinese rice wine. Compared to the Korean sake prod...
