All Japan News Blog
2024-09-04
Sake Nation: “Young Japanese consumers and Japanese Sake②”
By Kosuke Kuji    This is the second report about young Japanese consumers and Japanese sake.  The previous report was about a social gathering organized in Asakusa district, while this report is abou...
2024-08-21
The Oldest Sake Breweries in Japan
The Oldest Sake Breweries in Japan In Japan, 42,966 long-established companies will celebrate over 100 years in business in 2023. The oldest business in Japan is Kongo Gumi Co., Ltd., a construction c...
2024-08-14
Tokyo Jizake Strolling (“Nihonsakari” is a quality sake brand)
By Ryuji Takahashi   I always felt major sake breweries must become successful first to invigorate the Japanese sake industry. Major sake breweries are always involved in preserving jizake breweries b...
2024-08-07
Sake is produced with no preservatives
Sake is unfortunately perishable, and quick to spoil. The reason why sake is high in alcohol concentration compared to other alcoholic beverages worldwide is the result of accumulated technical renova...
2024-07-31
Sake Nation: “Young Japanese consumers and Japanese Sake ①”
By Kosuke Kuji    In Japan, young consumers drinking less alcohol and sake is seen as a problem. One explanation, however, is that younger generations worldwide are drinking less alcohol in general. W...
2024-07-24
Many sake breweries are long-established companies with over 100 years of history.
Many sake breweries are long-established companies with over 100 years of history.   Sake brewed from rice, the prototype of sake, is said to have originated in the time of legends until the Heian Per...
2024-07-17
Tokyo Jizake Strolling (a collaborative sake pairing event held in an Italian restaurant)
By Ryuji Takahashi I’ve authored several articles on collaborative projects that served sake with Italian cuisine in an Italian restaurant. The theme of this project was to determine if sake pairs wel...
2024-07-10
How various sake is classified
Due to the implementation of the Liquor Tax Law revised in April 1, 1992, the long-standing Japanese sake “Classification System” was abolished. The Sake Classification System refers to the classifica...
2024-07-03
Sake Nation “Noto Peninsula Earthquake and Sake Breweries ④”
By Kosuke Kuji The Noto Peninsula Earthquake occurred in the “Noto Peninsula,” home to one of the three most renowned Toji (Master sake brewers) representative of Japan, and many Noto Toji (Master sak...
2024-06-19
The history of sake is said to have started when rice farming became widespread during the Yayoi period
The history of sake is said to have started when rice farming became widespread during the Yayoi period (400 BC~300 AD) and produced rice. Earthenware from the Jomon Period (14,000 BC~1,000 BC) excava...