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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It’s brewed in centuries-old mountaintop ...

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The ingredients of sake are few: rice, water, yeast and koji, a rice mold, which breaks down the starches into fermentable sugars AP: Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi.

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AP A person prepares for a display as he pours Japanese sake into a wooden cup traditionally used to drink sake, in Tokyo. Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It's brewed in ...

It also honored a tradition dating back some 1,000 years — sake makes a cameo in Japan’s famous 11th century novel, “The Tale of Genji,” as the drink of choice in the refined Heian court.