{"id":9360,"date":"2022-10-19T09:07:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T03:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9360"},"modified":"2025-03-29T12:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T07:20:16","slug":"nihonshujapanese-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nihonshujapanese-sake\/","title":{"rendered":"Nihonshu\/Japanese sake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Nihonshu\/Japanese sake:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This is the first time a product from Japan has filed for a tag at the Geographical Indication Registry in Chennai.<\/li>\n<li>In Japan, nihonshu is regarded as a special and valuable beverage made from fermenting rice.<\/li>\n<li>People traditionally drink nihonshu on special occasions, such as festivals, weddings or funerals, but it is also consumed on a daily basis. Thus, it is an integral part of the lifestyle and culture in Japan.<\/li>\n<li>The sake market (almost all are nihonshu) is the second largest brewed liquor (such as beer) market in Japan.<\/li>\n<li>For making nihonshu three main raw materials \u2013 rice, koji-kin (a type of fungal spore) and water \u2013 are required.<\/li>\n<li>The production of nihonshu follows an alcoholic fermentation method called parallel multiple fermentation and involves raw material treatment, koji making, starter culture making, mash making, pressing, heat sterilisation and bottling.<\/li>\n<li>The rice and koji used should originate in Japan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>History:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The economy of Japan was based around rice, which was used as a sort of quasi-money before the establishment of a monetary economy in the Meiji period (1869-1912).<\/li>\n<li>As a result, nihonshu production was thoroughly under the government\u2019s control.<\/li>\n<li>As nihonshu\u2019s production became more industrialised in the Edo period (1603-1868), those who had special licences began hiring many farmers in the agricultural off-season.<\/li>\n<li>They gradually won a reputation as craftsmen, which resulted in the establishment of the hierarchical Toii system (Toii is the person responsible for sake brewing), likened to an apprenticeship or guild system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G1SADLLI3.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Japan, nihonshu is regarded as a special and valuable beverage made from fermenting rice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}