Foreign diplomats experience sake making in Japan in Olympics year

Foreign diplomats in Japan have toured a sake brewery near Tokyo to study how the beverage is made in a project the Japanese government and the sake industry hope will promote the traditional rice wine overseas.The National Tax Agency, which co-hosted the project with the Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association, aims to boost promotion of sake and other Japanese-made alcoholic beverages abroad this year as Japan hosts the Olympics and Paralympics.In the tour at Iinuma Honke Co.'s brewery in Chiba Prefecture on Feb. 13, some of the 12 diplomats and their family members from the United State…READ FULL ARTICLE