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Style & Design | ON: DESIGN Sep 2, 2018

Seeing things from another angle

by Mio Yamada

Design that thrives on different perspectives of the innovative, the classic and the traditional

Food & Drink | TOKYO FOOD FILE Aug 4, 2018

Toritama: Beak-to-tail yakitori washed down with top sake

by Robbie Swinnerton

There are only two fail-safe ways to get through a Tokyo heatwave summer. One is to head for the hills, or anywhere else the nights are cool. The other is to self-medicate. Sake does the trick perfectly, especially when matched with good yakitori. That ...

Business Aug 1, 2018

Japan's largest sake exporter eyes even larger slice of international market

by Aya Takada and Hiromi Horie

The new boss of Takara Holdings Inc., Japan's biggest sake-supplier to overseas markets, wants to make the rice-based alcohol as popular as wine. Mutsumi Kimura, 55, who in June became the third-youngest president in Takara's 93-year history, plans to expand the company's network in the ...

Food & Drink | KANPAI CULTURE Jul 7, 2018

At Mugaritz, sommelier Guillermo Cruz pairs sake and the avant-garde

by Melinda Joe

Although Basque Country in Spain might not be your first thought when it comes to Japanese brews, two-Michelin-star Mugaritz is helping diners fall in love with sake by offering multiple pairings with each imaginative dish.

Food & Drink | KANPAI CULTURE Jun 9, 2018

It's not what's in the glass of sake, it's the glass itself

by Melinda Joe

Riedel's new Junmai Glass elevates drinking junmai, or "pure rice," sake to a multisensory experience.

National Jun 2, 2018

Top Iwate brewery turns to AI for high-tech assist with sake

An award-winning sake brewery in the Tohoku region is eyeing a new approach to sake production that uses artificial intelligence to assist skilled workers. Nanbu Bijin Co. in Ninohe, Iwate Prefecture, is developing an AI tool to find the best time to drain water in ...

National May 18, 2018

Fukushima tops national sake competition for record-setting sixth year

Fukushima Prefecture is home to the largest number of award-winning sake brands for the sixth year in a row, marking a record in an annual competition, the National Research Institute of Brewing said Thursday. Nineteen brands from the prefecture won the Gold Prize at the ...

National May 2, 2018

Maker of premium sake Dassai to build brewery in New York, its first outside Japan

by Justin Maki

Asahi Shuzo Co., the Yamaguchi Prefecture-based maker of Dassai premium sake, has announced plans to build a brewery in New York, making it the first Japanese producer to establish itself in the region at a time when local craft sake breweries are on the ...

Business Apr 30, 2018

Sake breweries flourish in Europe as continent embraces Japanese food culture

Sake breweries are increasing in Europe thanks to the popularity of sushi and other traditional Japanese food. The front runner is Norwegian craft beer maker Nogne O, which invited a Canadian brewmaster to help create its sake and started production of the rice wine in ...

Food & Drink | KANPAI CULTURE Apr 7, 2018

Hong Kong and Macau, the sake gateways to China

by Melinda Joe

With tastes for premium Japanese sake on the rise, new opportunities to drink sake abound in Hong Kong and Macau.

Food & Drink | TOKYO FOOD FILE Mar 31, 2018

Know by Moto: Sake finds a chic haven below Shinjuku

by Robbie Swinnerton

So you've rendezvoused beneath the huge video screen at Studio Alta. You've explored Shinjuku, maybe caught a movie or trawled for treats in the gleaming depachika (basement food floor) of the Isetan department store. Now you're ready for sustenance. Somewhere cool, with good food ...