Sake producers are struggling to find a way to keep the party going as whisky continues to gain ground among drinkers in the country.

The appeal of this ubiquitous three ingredient cocktail is plain to see, but how did Japan come to define the humble mix of ...

Following its inclusion on UNESCO’s cultural heritage list, Japanese brewers hope to showcase the true identity of sake and ...

OKAYA, Nagano Prefecture--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 ...

Down the cavernous halls of Whitehall’s Old War Offices ... and homely hideaway calm of a Japanese listening bar, prim décor and lines of hundreds of sake bottles sitting beneath immaculately ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Gozenshu Brewery is one of the few in Japan using bodaimoto, a 600-year-old fermentation method, to make sake. They use it to make junmai, or pure rice sake ...

As the old sake adage goes: Sake is built like beer ... When you order sake at a Japanese restaurant or bar in the U.S., pronounce it “sah-keh,” not “sah-kee.” You'll likely be greeted ...

For Maesako, the 40-year-old chief brewer of Ishikawa ... around by igniting demand overseas, where sake has slowly gained popularity alongside Japanese cuisine, also in part thanks to UNESCO ...

Over the centuries, Japanese brewers have ... are venturing into so-called craft sake to win over new fans. We look at how a drink rooted in a centuries-old tradition is opening up a world of ...