Fermentation is vital to Japanese cuisine but a shrinking industry. A soy sauce maker cooks up sumptuous ways of embracing the age-old technology with the new.
Here's what Michelin Star restaurant chefs from the US, food writers, alcohol beverage producers learned from their tour from Toyama to Fukui to Kanazawa.
From swordmaking to modern knives, Japanese pottery, wooden chests, paper making, and more — learn from Japanese artisans themselves.
As of January 11, 12 deaths were confirmed in Akita Prefecture alone, with several hundreds injured in different regions in Northern Japan.
