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Every KAMPAI Tells a Story — From Documentary to a New Beginning

What I needed to become a sake fan wasn't knowledge or training—it was the experience of being thrown straight into the heart of it all. From making award-winning sake documentaries to launching KAMPAI, filmmaker Mirai Konishi shares how a chance encounter in Little Tokyo transformed his life and inspired a mission to connect the world with sake culture.

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Column 2026.05.29

In New York, I Met Again the Sake I First Brought Here

New York is the first city Nanbu Bijin ever sent its sake out to. It's also the city I've returned to the most times, with the deepest stake in. The Mutual Trading sales meeting; TSUKIMI, where Nanbu Bijin has been on the list since opening night; the Michelin-starred ODO and its gallery; a Brooklyn restaurant where a chef built a Nanbu-Bijin ramen course just for me. A homecoming — and a quiet confirmation that the sake I once carried here has long since let go of my hand. A dispatch from Nanbu Bijin's Kosuke Kuji.

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Kanagawa Sake in a Can: A Station-Building Operator Bottles Three Historic Breweries

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The third edition of an original canned-sake series featuring local Kanagawa breweries goes on sale at 10:00 on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, through "Ishobako," an online shop inside JRE MALL.

2026.06.05

Kanagawa Sake in a Can: A Station-Building Operator Bottles Three Historic Breweries

Japan's "Best Sake You Can Actually Buy" Competition Heads to TV This Autumn, with Winners Shown in Los Angeles

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"SAKE COMPETITION 2026," the contest that crowns the "world's most delicious commercially available sake," will be featured in a special program on BS-TBS this autumn.

2026.06.05

Japan's "Best Sake You Can Actually Buy" Competition Heads to TV This Autumn, with Winners Shown in Los Angeles

Sip Sake Among the Fish: Sendai's "Sake Night Aquarium" Returns August 29

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After closing time, Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium will be taken over for "Sake Night Aquarium," an evening event where guests taste sake from nine breweries across Miyagi Prefecture.

2026.06.02

Sip Sake Among the Fish: Sendai's "Sake Night Aquarium" Returns August 29

Chiba's Miyazaki Shuzoten Wins Top Honor at Kura Master 2026

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Miyazaki Shuzoten, a brewery in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture, has won a Platinum Award at Kura Master 2026 for its Junmai Daiginjo "Salmon Musubi" — the brewery's first time taking the top honor at the Paris-based competition.

2026.05.25

SAKE COMPETITION 2026: The Night 1,190 Bottles Have a Champion — June 10 in Tokyo

2026.05.16

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KAORIUM Expands into Convenience Stores: AI Is Recommending Drinks in More and More Places

2026.05.15

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Sake Bar Moto TOKYO: Standing Bar Meets Kappo, Right Inside Tokyo Station

Washoku Onodera in Kagurazaka: One Omakase Course, Eight Seasonal Dishes

Nihonshu Stand Moto Kayabacho: Standing Bar Sake From ¥390 a Pour

Sake and Spaghetti Napolitan? Inside Kayabacho's "Shokudo"

Ranking

1 Every KAMPAI Tells a Story — From Documentary to a New Beginning 2 Sake Bar Moto TOKYO: Standing Bar Meets Kappo, Right Inside Tokyo Station 3 The Night I Poured Sake at a Holocaust Museum in Texas 4 "Kaku-uchi" Goes to Stockholm: IMADEYA and ANA Launch a Sake Culture Project in Sweden 5 Nihonshu Stand Moto Kayabacho: Standing Bar Sake From ¥390 a Pour

Series

Vol.08 2026.05.29

In New York, I Met Again the Sake I First Brought Here

Vol.07 2026.05.22

In Chicago, Sake Was Moving Without the Japanese

Vol.06 2026.05.15

In Boston, There Was a Long Line for Japanese Food

Vol.05 2026.05.08

In Champagne, I Become the One Taking Notes

Vol.04 2026.05.01

The Night I Paired Sake with Burgers in Chile

Featured Events

2026.06.19〜20 15 days

17th National Sake Fair

Sample sake from breweries across Japan in Ikebukuro this June, with the National New Sake Awards public tasting running at the same venue on June 20 — both in one day. ¥2,000 for ages 20–39.

location_on Sunshine City, Ikebukuro, Tokyo

2026.07.03〜05 29 days

Yokohama Sake Square 2026

20 breweries from the greater Tokyo area pouring at Yokohama's Red Brick Warehouse. FM Yokohama runs the soundtrack—DJs alongside the sake. Three days in July.

location_on Red Brick Warehouse Event Plaza, Yokohama