Sake making has a history of more than a thousand years, with strong roots in Japan's traditional Shinto religion. But when ...

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

"Koji" mold, which is key to sake production and is called "the mold of the nation," has been developed in Japan since ...

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 were added to UNESCO's ...

If it works, just one 100ml bottle will be offered for sale on Earth at 100 million yen, or about $653,000. A standard serve ...

Mie Takahashi is one of a small group of female master sake brewers, made possible by changing gender norms and increased ...

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, ...

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, ...

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