Japan’s trade ministry said it will develop a smartphone app which will allow English-speakers to scan the label on a bottle of Japanese sake and obtain information such as its alcohol content, how to ...

Sake is made from rice. It is a brewed alcoholic beverage. There are varying degrees of quality determined by production and the amount milled away from each grain of rice. There are more than 30,000 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Akiko Katayama covers Japanese food and culture. It would be fair to say that Japanese food has become a part of American food ...

Speaking at the New Economy Summit in Tokyo in April, footballer turned sake entrepreneur Hidetoshi Nakata suggested that a big reason the Japanese sake industry is struggling is a lack of branding: ...

If your experience with sake is limited to the warm cup at your local sushi spot, you're missing the larger world of sake, ...