“Without it, Japanese food and flavour don’t exist at all.” To be scientific, koji is aspergillus oryzae, a fermentation culture used in the production of sake, soy sauce, miso, rice vinegar and mirin ...

Japanese sake brewer Asahi Shuzo is preparing to send sake ingredients to the International Space Station in late 2025. Their goal is to produce a single 100ml bottle of space-brewed sake ...

Stars including Mandy Moore, Mark Hamill and James Woods have been evacuated from their homes in the Los Angeles district of ...

Inoue came up with the project after an Indian acquaintance sought his advice about exporting Japanese sake to his home country. Inoue approached Masahiko Toda, another fellow acquaintance who ...

A Japanese sake maker marked the grand opening of its brewery in upstate New York with hopes of catering to local taste buds through its renowned Dassai brand. Asahi Shuzo Co. in Iwakuni ...

A Japanese sake brewery will attempt to make the world’s first outer space sake, creating just one bottle and donating the 100 million yen (US$640,000) proceeds from its sale to domestic space ...

The U.S. government said Wednesday that it has notified Congress of its approval of the $39 million sale of air-to-surface standoff missiles and related equipment to Japan. The move comes in ...

OKAYA, Japan — Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi checks the temperature of the mixture fermenting at her family’s 150-year-old sake brewery, Koten, nestled in the ...

During the pandemic, fourth-generation sake brewer Akira Sasaki realized that, despite having worked at his family business for over 25 years, he had rarely had a chance to see the faces of the ...

on Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae) OKAYA, Nagano (AP) -- Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi checks the temperature of the mixture fermenting at her family's 150-year-old ...

(Kyodo) NAGANO (Kyodo) -- Hands-on experiences of brewing Japanese sake has been a hit with tourists in central Japan even before the techniques used to produce the traditional alcoholic beverage ...

Japan’s consumption of alcoholic drinks has declined steadily over the past few decades, with a notable drop in the amount of sake drunk. End-of-year parties (bōnenkai) and New Year family ...