A committee of UNESCO has decided to register Japan's traditional knowledge and skills for making sake and other alcoholic ...

Traditional Japanese knowledge and skills used in the production of sake and "shochu" distilled spirits were approved on ...

The government accepted a request from Okinawan producers of awamori, the well-known spirit of the southernmost prefecture, to reduce the tax break over 10 years to May 2032 instead of ...

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Now, Japanese overseas as well as Japanese government are looking to promote Awamori, an alcoholic beverage indigenous to Okinawa. Awamori is a distilled spirit, made of Thai-mai (long grain rice ...