UNESCO added Japan's process of sake brewing to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list. File Photo by Everett Kennedy Brown/EPA Dec. 5 (UPI) --The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...

The old way of making Japanese sake is finally getting its due. This week, UNESCO officially added the Japanese rice wine to its list of the "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.” More ...

LUQUE, Paraguay — 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 weddings and ...

Associate Professor GOTO Masashi of the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration (RIEB) is conducting research on the system of “tōji,” the traditional sake brewers, and the ...

FUSSA, Japan, Dec 2 (Reuters) - At a Tokyo brewery dating back to the days of the samurai, Koichi Maesako drops a 3-metre-long wooden paddle into a giant, jade-coloured tank and gently stirs the white ...

Creative sake brewing based on the theme of colors revealed in blind tests. In December 2013, Japanese cuisine was recognized as an Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO, and sake, a part of Japanese ...

OKAYA, Japan — 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 of ...

Dec. 5 (UPI) --The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization added traditional Japanese knowledge and skills used in the production of sake and "shochu" distilled spirits to its ...

Part of Japan's delegation from left to right; Shuntaro Yoshino, Takehiro Kano, and Hidetaka Kinami, attend a UNESCO World Heritage Convention, where the traditional Japanese brewing of sake is listed ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LUQUE, Paraguay (AP) — Sake is perhaps more ...