{"id":362,"date":"2023-08-22T19:09:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T07:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2024-03-22T15:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T03:22:55","slug":"struggling-niigata-sake-sees-a-future-in-japans-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"The Japan Times &#8211; Struggling Niigata sake sees a future in Japan\u2019s past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Niigata Prefecture is renowned for its sake (rice wine). In my small town of Joetsu alone, there are several breweries, two festivals, a\u00a0sake-tasting railway and, until 2004, a high school devoted to brewing a vintage none of its students could drink.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, in recent years,\u00a0sake&#8217;s popularity has declined.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/life\/2023\/08\/13\/food-drink\/struggling-niigata-sake-sees-a-future-in-japans-past\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/life\/2023\/08\/13\/food-drink\/struggling-niigata-sake-sees-a-future-in-japans-past\/\">Here&#8217;s my article in The Japan Times<\/a> about Niigata&#8217;s relationship with\u00a0sake\u00a0and how Japan&#8217;s national tipple might bounce back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Struggling-Niigata-sake-sees-\u2018a-future-in-Japans-past.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Struggling-Niigata-sake-sees-\u2018a-future-in-Japans-past.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-ebfdd84a-3f1c-4982-94bb-1763e9291f9d\" href=\"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Struggling-Niigata-sake-sees-\u2018a-future-in-Japans-past.pdf\">Struggling-Niigata-sake-sees-\u2018a-future-in-Japans-past<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niigata Prefecture is renowned for its sake (rice wine). In my small town of Joetsu alone, there are several breweries, two festivals, a\u00a0sake-tasting railway and, until 2004, a high school devoted to brewing a vintage none of its students could drink.\u00a0 However, in recent years,\u00a0sake&#8217;s popularity has declined. Here&#8217;s my article in The Japan Times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-published-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}