One of their destinations was a 600-year-old factory in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. The factory makes koji spore ― Japan's "national mold" ― and supplies it to brewers of sake and makers ...

"Koji" mold, which is key to sake production and is called "the mold of the nation," has been developed in Japan since ancient times. With traditional sake production's addition to the UNESCO list ...

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Takamine is a new whiskey made with koji, a mold that’s long been used in Japan for starting fermentation.Credit...Kosuke Okahara for The New York Times Supported by By Clay Risen One afternoon ...

The products include fermented salted squid, senbei rice crackers and Japanese sake. Authorities in Taiwan say they found records that two firms there imported products containing the beni-koji ...

Koji is arguably the most important ingredient in Japanese cooking. Grains or soybeans that have been inoculated with koji ...

A Japanese man has quit the job he has been doing all his life to study baking and pastry so that he could fulfil the dream of his daughter who died from cancer. Koji Eguchi, 57, has moved many ...

But “traditional knowledge and skills of sake-making with ‘koji’ mold in Japan” is now registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. And the age-old technique has produced ...

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