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Story summary
- Japan’s sake industry faces a warming climate that threatens Yamada Nishiki, which supplies about 40% of sakamai.
- Yamada Nishiki, dubbed the king of sake rice, comes from Hyogo Prefecture.
- Brewers in Hyogo are questioning the cultivar’s future because of climate impacts.
- Yoichiro Yamana, 12th-generation owner of Yamana Shuzo, says the rice now resists dissolving more than before.
- Yamana Shuzo has operated for three centuries.