• Nihonshu Oendan partners with regional producers to create food-and-sake pairing kits; August’s offering comes with the brand’s bright and juicy Noto sake from Ishikawa Prefecture, along with sazae (turban shell) prepared three ways and an assorted platter of five kinds of fresh fish from the Noto Peninsula. | NIHONSHU OENDAN INC, KOHEI ISHII
    Nihonshu Oendan partners with regional producers to create food-and-sake pairing kits; August’s offering comes with the brand’s bright and juicy Noto sake from Ishikawa Prefecture, along with sazae (turban shell) prepared three ways and an assorted platter of five kinds of fresh fish from the Noto Peninsula. | NIHONSHU OENDAN INC, KOHEI ISHII
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When Japan’s central government placed Tokyo under a fresh (fourth) state of emergency on July 12, the city responded with a collective groan. After merely two weeks of loosened restrictions in late June, the ban on alcohol service at bars and restaurants in the capital locked back into place.

Tuesday brought more glum news. Originally scheduled to expire on Aug. 22, the state of emergency was extended and expanded once again, prolonging restrictions until mid-September.

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