A Japanese sake maker marked the grand opening of its brewery in upstate New York with hopes of catering to local taste buds ...

To hear Jim Rion tell it, Ohmine Shuzo in Yamaguchi Prefecture is less a sake brewery and more a sake industry black box a la Willy Wonka’s enigmatic chocolate factory. Staffed by “staff dressed in ...

HAMAMATSU--Brewmaster Akira Yamaguchi is conjuring up an intoxicating initiative at a long-established sake brewery: crafting rice wine products from wine yeasts. He is one of the two brewmasters at ...

Sake drinkers hoping to watch seasoned craftsmen show off ancient skills with antique wooden equipment will be out of luck on a tour of the Dassai brewery in Yamaguchi prefecture. The gleaming ...

Nagayama Honke Shuzōjō, a small sake brewery in Yamaguchi Prefecture, is turning its back on the mainstream of Japanese sake-making with its focus on French winemaking concepts like terroir. A strict ...

The surreal landscape of the Akiyoshidai Plateau, located in Mine, Yamaguchi Prefecture, a 30-minute drive from Shin-Yamaguchi Station, is a vast swath of grassland dotted with jagged white stones ...

In September 2004, Hidenori Yamaguchi opened Lexington's first izakaya, or Japanese bar and grill, and in February 2008, he turned it into Japanese Express. Now, Yamaguchi's has moved on to sake and ...

In the six or so years since I first began seriously looking at sake, the drink has become a truly international one. Even setting aside the ever-growing export numbers, one only has to look at the ...

Japan's largest island, Honshu, might be the country's most famous travel destination, but its westernmost prefecture, Yamaguchi, remains relatively obscure to many Chinese tourists. At a reception ...

Tetsuo Yamaguchi’s home is located just steps from the “office,” a sake brewery founded by his family 180 years ago in the Japanese city of Kurume. And like the fermented-rice beverage, the Yamaguchi ...