Japan's famous rice wine, sake, has been inducted into UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, marking a significant acknowledgment of the nation's rich culinary traditions.

Sake exports, mostly to the U.S. and China, now rake in over $265 million a year, according to the association. Japan’s delegation appeared ready to celebrate on Wednesday — in classic ...

Products and practices from Aleppo soap to Japanese sake have now made it onto the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list, which grants protection to oral traditions, performing arts ...

Tokyo (AFP) – Japanese tipples sake and shochu -- and the knowledge and skills honed over centuries to make them -- have been added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. It's believed ...

Japanese tipples sake and shochu -- and the knowledge and skills honed over centuries to make them -- have been added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. AFP looks at how sake, ...

Traditional sake brewers had already been contending with decades of falling sales at home as consumers acquired a taste for cocktails like highballs and other alcoholic drinks. "The situation is ...

SINGAPORE – If there seems to be a hive of activity surrounding sake in Singapore, it is not by accident. More restaurants are adding sake to their beverage lists. Join ST's Telegram channel ...

“I’d been through a life in medicine, a life in winemaking.” It’s this instinct that led Geoffroy to leave Dom Pérignon with the intent to blend Japan’s signature beverage, sake, bringing his IWA 5 ...

Daniel Bennett, the beverage director and certified sake professional/sommelier, is photographed in The Omakase Room at Sushi-san. Zubaer Khan/Sun-Times Share Many ...

Deep in a dark warehouse the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks, each holding more than 10,000 liters of the Japanese rice wine that is the product of brewing techniques dating back more than ...

Sake is gathering new fans all over the world, but back in its home market, the Japanese are losing interest. Genki Ito says there are a number of factors behind the continuing decline in sake ...