All Japan News Blog
2023-04-19
The Original Cloudy Sake
Recently, the term ‘Doburoku’ (unrefined sake) is hardly used anymore. Doburoku is a traditional Japanese white cloudy sake produced from rice, malted rice, water and fermented without filtration.  Th...
2023-04-12
Tokyo Jizake Strolling (Tokyo Winter Sake Festival in Yoyogi 2023)
By Ryuji Takahashi  The “Tokyo Winter Sake Festival in Yoyogi 2023” was held at the Tokyo Yoyogi Park over three days from January 27~29. The concept for this event was to select delicious jizake (reg...
2023-04-05
When in Rome do as the Romans do…
By Yuji MatsumotoIf you ask me if I enjoy having cocktails, my answer would be no. But that’s my personal preference. Develop sake and shochu cocktails at the restaurant and sell it. These cocktails a...
2023-03-29
Sake Nation “A new way to promote Japanese sake combines a live-stream (two-dimensional) event with an in-person tasting (three-dimensional) event: Pa
By Kosuke KujiA new way to promote Japanese sake fusing a 2-dimensional live-stream with a 3-dimensional in-person event requires us real-world sake brewers to first jump into the 2-dimensional world ...
2023-03-22
Enjoy Japanese sake during each of the four seasons
Japan has four distinct seasons, thus enjoying a long-established custom of taking in the seasonal ambiance with seasonal sake each season. “Hanamizake” (“sake for flower-viewing”) is sake representat...
2023-03-15
Tokyo Jizake Strolling (sales events at the end of the year)
By Ryuji TakahashiJapanese sake sells most in the month of December. To say cheap sake, high-end sake, and sake products containing gold flakes all sell on their own upon display is not an understatem...
2023-03-08
Key Sake Sales Points
By Yuji MatsumotoMany of those involved in sake tend to prefer to use vague and mysterious expressions. It seems as if they dislike saying anything definitive about a product’s characteristics. Howeve...
2023-03-01
Sake Nation “A new way to promote Japanese sake combines a live-stream (2D) event with an in-person tasting (3D) event: Part 2”
By Kosuke Kuji“The Japan Ginjo Sake Association” with over forty years of history held a new style of sake event that combines a live-stream (two-dimensional) event with an in-person tasting (three-di...
2023-02-22
Sake produced during the Kamakura (1185-1333) and Muromachi periods (1336-1573)
The Onin War (1467) prompted a civil war in Japan, a period of unrest when warriors fought for power nationwide. Products started to circulate actively in castle towns of warring lords and around temp...
2023-02-15
Tokyo Jizake Strolling (Nishi-Shinjuku district or Jyunisou district?)
By Ryuji Takahashi Between Shinjuku district and Hatsudai district is an area traditionally called the Jyunisou district on the west side of Shinjuku Central Park, a red-light district since the Meiji...