The three-hour sightseeing train travels through Niigata Prefecture's most stunning landscapes, with sake pairings on board.

OKAYA, Japan (AP) — 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 the foothills ...

Sake has been a Japanese staple for thousands of years. Discover its history and learn how to properly drink sake from industry experts. “The importation of premium sake began about 30 years ago, and ...

TOKYO -- Shochu, a tipple little known outside its native Japan, is the subject of a new export drive by brewer Kirin's wine ...

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

Ayano Okamoto, an executive at the Fukumitsuya Sake Brewery, poured me a glass of aged sake on a steamy September day in the seaside Japanese city of Kanazawa. It was unlike any sake I’d ever tasted ...

In the summer of 2022, Japan launched a business contest to get young people to drink more booze, combatting a declining alcohol industry. The Sake Viva! contest is organized by Japan’s official ...

NIIGATA, Japan — Two thousand years after Japanese brewers figured out how to make a pleasing, potent fermented beverage from a handful of rice, the rest of the world is catching on to Japanese sake.

Outside of Japan, sake is somewhat of a mystery, with its own terminology, styles and drinking traditions. But the country's recent push to make sake more comprehensible to non-native drinkers is ...