Now, Japanese overseas as well as Japanese government are looking to promote Awamori, an alcoholic beverage indigenous to Okinawa. Awamori is a distilled spirit, made of Thai-mai (long grain rice ...

There's another type of cask from Japan that has been used pretty sparingly up until now, albeit with rather interesting results: Awamori casks from Okinawa. An expensive new rye whiskey was just ...

UNESCO added Japan's traditional techniques for making sake, shochu and awamori to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

Among alcohol produced with traditional brewing are sake, shochu, awamori, as well as mirin sweet cooking rice wine. Awamori, produced in Okinawa Prefecture, is regarded as Japan's oldest ...