Traditional Japanese food is typically flavored using a combination of dashi, soy sauce, sake and mirin, vinegar, sugar, and salt.

In the Japanese language, the word sake refers to any alcoholic beverage, while the beverage called sake in English is termed nihonshu ( 日本酒, " Japanese liquor ").

Japanese sake rice is another kind as well.

Another theory is that the term is a phonetic reduction of " sake " the name of a Japanese beverage that was introduced to the West by Spanish and Portuguese traders.

* Hara ( company ), a Japanese sake company

The Ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI ) attempted to force the Japanese video industry to standardize on just one recording format, for the sake of saving the country from consumer confusion of having too many video formats on the market to choose from.

This is similar to the Japanese sake bomb.

A popular Japanese dish is kinpira gobō ( 金平牛蒡 ), julienned or shredded burdock root and carrot, braised with soy sauce, sugar, mirin and / or sake, and sesame oil ; another is burdock makizushi ( sushi filled with pickled burdock root ; the burdock root is often artificially coloured orange to resemble a carrot ).

In non-Japanese cultures, any dish made with a teriyaki-like sauce ( often even those using foreign alternatives to sake ), or with added ingredients such as sesame or garlic ( uncommon in traditional Japanese cuisine ), is described as teriyaki.

Trade for superior quality iron wares and sake made the Emishi dependant on the Japanese for these valuable goods.

The Japanese unexpectedly leave the island, and in both celebration and frustration, Allison gets drunk on some sake left behind.

Like other Japanese holidays, this holiday was repackaged as a non-religious holiday for the sake of separation of religion and state in Japan's postwar constitution.

The same Chinese character ( 酒 ) is also used in Japanese writing of the Kanji form, where it is pronounced sake or shu, and in Korean writing of the older Hanja form, where it is pronounced " ju.

Saccharification and fermentation of the rice can occur in separate phases, similar to the way Japanese sake is produced, or a concurrent process where saccharification and fermentation happens in the same mash.

* Mijiu ( a type of rice wine similar to Japanese sake )

Their goal was not to create a standardized karate as the Japanese had been doing with Kendo and Judo for the sake of popularization.

* Japanese sake ( Shiogama brand: Uragasumi Zen, Omotaka Otokoyama, Shiki no Matsushima, Date no Iki, etc.

This town celebrates an annual light festival ( matsuri ) in which the residents place one candle in each of 10, 000 sake bottles and then arrange them in geometric configurations after dark while listening to traditional Japanese music.

It is part of the family of traditional Japanese foods made using that includes miso, soy sauce, and sake.

The main two traditional economies in the city are the production of sake and Japanese candles.

( For the most part, the Japanese do not eat rice or noodles ( shushoku-" staple food ") at the same time as they drink alcohol, since sake, brewed from rice, traditionally takes the place of rice in a meal.

Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.

In is she Chinese or Japanese??

Mrs. Hosaka is one of the Japanese women one reads about -- beautiful, artistically talented, an artful manager of her big household -- ( four boys and four girls ), and yet looking like a pampered, gentle Japanese woman.

I was told that it is quite likely that Japanese soldiers would not fight again -- for why should they??

Masu is also teaching in a municipally-sponsored school for Japanese widows in Tokyo.

Here again it was vacation time and there were many things I could not see, but I was able to visit with a professor who is famous in Japanese circles and be guided through the grounds by his assistant.

Field Marshal Slim is more impressed by the courage of Japanese soldiers than he is by the ability of their commanders.

But the greater reason for fumbling, stumbling American leadership is due to the shock her pride suffered when the Japanese attacked at Pearl Harbor.

Most of them have been assimilated, but sometimes a man in Miyagi or Akita prefectures is much more hairy than the average Japanese, and occasionally a girl will be strikingly lovely, her coloring warmed and improved by a little of the tawny honey-in-the-sun tint of the invaders from the South.

She was taller than most Japanese girls, and had the exquisitely willowy form of the Japanese girl who is lucky enough to be tall.

Tommy, of course, had never heard of a kotowaza, or Japanese proverb, which says, `` Tanin yori miuchi '', and is literally translated as `` Relatives are better than strangers ''.

In Japanese, the abacus is called soroban (, lit.

The 1 / 4 abacus, which is suited to decimal calculation, appeared circa 1930, and became widespread as the Japanese abandoned hexadecimal weight calculation which was still common in China.

The use of the soroban is still taught in Japanese primary schools as part of mathematics, primarily as an aid to faster mental calculation.

This organization is used in Southeast Asia, Tibet, Korean hangul, and even Japanese kana, which is not an alphabet.

Japanese is first attested in a few short inscriptions from the 5th century AD, such as the Inariyama Sword.

The first substantial text in Japanese, however, is the Kojiki, which dates from 712 AD.

However Juhanen ( 1992 ) is skeptical about an affiliation of Japanese to Altaic languages, while Róna-Tas ( 1998: 77 ) remarked that a relationship between Altaic and Japanese, if it ever existed, must be more remote than the relationship of any two of the Indo-European languages.

Ramsey ( 2004: 340 ) stated that " the genetic relationship between Korean and Japanese, if it in fact exists, is probably more complex and distant than we can imagine on the basis of our present state of knowledge ", a concept later restated by Lee ( 2011 ).

These included: Rheinterrasse, Löwenbräu ( Bavarian beer restaurant ), Grinzing ( Viennese café and wine bar ), Bodega ( Spanish winery ), Csarda ( Hungarian ), Wild West Bar ( aka the Arizona Bar ) ( American ), Osteria ( Italian ), Kombüse ( Bremen drinking den-literally " galley "), Rübchen ( Teltow, named after the well-known turnip dish Teltower Rübchen, made with turnips grown locally in the small town of Teltow just outside Berlin ), plus a Turkish cafe and Japanese tearoom ; additionally there was a large ballroom.

Originally preying on Puglia's substantial wine and olive oil industries, the group moved into fraud, gunrunning and drug trafficking and made alliances with international criminal organizations such as the Russian and Albanian mafias, Colombian drug cartels, Chinese Triads, and Japanese Yakuza.

Japanese sword mountings | Kozuka with Li Bai drinking a cup of wine while looking at a waterfall

He is claimed to be one of the first Japanese to eat ramen as well as routinely enjoying such exotic food as wine and yogurt.

Umeshu ( 梅酒 ; sometimes translated as " plum wine ") is a Japanese alcoholic drink made by steeping green plums in shōchū ( 焼酎 ; clear liquor ).

, literally beef bowl, is a Japanese dish consisting of a bowl of rice topped with beef and onion simmered in a mildly sweet sauce flavored with dashi ( fish and seaweed stock ), soy sauce and mirin ( sweet rice wine ).

* Japanese wine

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A Japanese police officer named Katsuhiko Yoshimura was on patrol in the area, and was offered a cup of wine by Daho Mona as a symbolic gesture.

Terroir is also a frequent topic of discussion in the Japanese wine comic Les Gouttes de Dieu.

* 1980: Japanese subsidiary acquired an antioxidant derived from sake wine, called Pitera.

Both sets of kanji remain in use today to write the word ; the authoritative Japanese dictionary Kōjien describes the " cuisine for a get-together " as a banquet meal where the main beverage is sake ( Japanese rice wine ), and the " bosom-stone " cuisine as the simple meal served in chanoyu.

When Jubei got drunk thanks to Musashi who forcibly makes him drink sake ( Japanese rice wine ), Onimaru takes advantage and summons a demon while he's in a drunken state to turn him into a werewolf which has the same skills ( albeit heightened to a degree ) like a normal Jubei but is murderous and loves drinking sake.

In the early to mid-1980s, Paul Mauriat appeared in several Japanese coffee and wine television commercials, which featured music from his orchestra.

The two also eat at a restaurant where the specialty is loaches who have been fed sake, the popular Japanese rice wine.

Cheongju ( hangul: 청주 ; hanja: 淸酒 ; literally " clear wine " or " clear liquor ") is a clear rice wine similar to Japanese sake.