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Sake brewery returns to disaster-hit Fukushima town
The Japan News
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Suzuki Shuzoten President Daisuke Suzuki is seen on Monday preparing for the opening of his brewery next month at Michi-no-Eki Namie in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.Japan News-Yomiuri
NAMIE, Fukushima, Japan - Sake brewing in the disaster-hit town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, resumed Monday for the first time in 10 years since residents were forced to evacuate because of the 2011 nuclear accident.
Namie brewery Suzuki Shuzoten found shelter in the city of Nagai, Yamagata Prefecture, and has been brewing sake there ever since. But it has also been preparing to once again produce sake entirely in Namie using the town s rice and water.