Tag: Japan
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UNESCO recognises Japanese sake-making with koji mold
Sake-making in Japan has joined the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list, with special mention for its oft-forgotten ingredient, koji. Joining a list that includes beer culture in Belgium, Cuban light rum masters and Georgian qvevri winemaking, Japan’s sake-making tradition has been inscribed by UNESCO as an example of intangible cultural heritage. The official wording – ‘Traditional knowledge and skills…
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True blue tradition: how Japan’s coveted jeans are made
Call it an antidote to fast fashion: Japanese jeans hand-dyed with natural indigo and weaved on a clackety vintage loom, then sold at a premium to global denim connoisseurs. Unlike their mass-produced cousins, the tough garments crafted at the small Momotaro Jeans factory in southwest Japan are designed to be worn for decades, and come…