All Japan News Blog
2023-05-24
Sake Nation “Sake breweries since the coronavirus outbreak”
By Kosuke KujiSake breweries in Japan incurred major damage from the coronavirus outbreak.The greatest blow was from restaurants forced to cease operations due to the initial state of emergency declar...
2023-05-17
Consumption of Nada sake in Edo 
Consumption of Nada sake in Edo Nada ward first emerged in historical documentation as “Nadame, Ports of the Nada Region,” a supplier of sake to Edo (the capital, modern-day Tokyo) in the “Examination...
2023-05-10
Tokyo Jizake Strolling (Wandering the Chugoku region) 
By Ryuji TakahashiSince discovering the named Honshu-Ichi from Hiroshima prefecture last fall, I was moved by the flavor and wished to visit the brewery. I finally visited Umeda Shuzo-jo Brewery in Fu...
2023-05-03
Organizing sake seminars
By Yuji MatsumotoConventional sake seminars (for the general public and businesses) were often about the brewing process, ingredients, and the sake categories. With this seminar, however, I skipped al...
2023-04-26
Sake Nation: “Japan’s recovery at last from the Coronavirus pandemic” 
By Kosuke KujiForeign nations led by the U.S. declared an early end to the coronavirus pandemic and returned to normal. In May, Japan will downgrade the coronavirus to allow regular hospitals, etc., t...
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...