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Kosher Sake Pours Into Japan Newsweek 12/11/2020 Ross Kenneth Urken © Courtesy of Binyomin Y. Edery Rabbi Edery and the owner at Funasaka Brewery in Takayama one of less than a dozen breweries in Japan that make kosher sake. Courtesy of Binyomin Y. Edery In a snug bar tucked in the back of a food market in Takayama, Japan, I raised a glass of kosher sake as I sat with Hiroki Arisu, the 35-year-old president and CEO of Funasaka Sake Brewery, which makes this elixir in keeping with Jewish dietary laws. Kanpai, I said. L chaim, Arisu responded, gamely cocking his eyebrows. What might seem a cultural oddity, this curious libation stems from the legacy of Chiune Sugihara, the Schindler of Japan, who served as a consular officer in Lithuania and issued the Visas of Life in 1940 to some 6,000 Jews that saved them from the Holocaust and secured them transit to Vladivostok and then Japan a feat all the more remarkable given Japan s alliance with German

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