Mie Takahashi is one of a small group of female toji, or master Japanese sake brewers. Only 33 female toji are registered in ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Sake brewer Mie Takahashi prepares steamed rice with koji mold for ...

A Japanese sake maker is going where no sake maker has gone before: space. Asahi Shuzo, the company behind the popular ...

LUQUE, Paraguay -- Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It's brewed in centuries-old mountaintop ...

If Asahi Shuzo is successful in creating the drink in the Japanese Experiment Module Kibo on the International Space Station, ...

J apanese tipples sake and shochu—and the knowledge and skills honed over centuries to make them —have been added to UNESCO's ...

Japan's famous rice wine, sake, has been inducted into UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, marking a ...

Sake brewery Asahi Shuzo Co. has announced out-of-this-world plans to brew rice wine on the International Space Station next ...

At a Tokyo brewery dating back to the days of the samurai, Koichi Maesako drops a 3-metre-long wooden paddle into a giant, ...

LUQUE, Paraguay (AP): Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It’s brewed in centuries-old mountaintop warehouses, savoured in the country’s pub-like izakayas, poured during ...

Traditional sake brewing marks the 23rd Japanese entry on the Intangible Cultural Heritage list, joining other culturally ...

UNESCO has listed 63 more products and practices for Intangible Cultural Heritage protection at its Paraguay session this ...