{"id":26731,"date":"2021-01-13T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/13\/woman-japan-male-world-sake-brewing-miho-imada"},"modified":"2021-01-13T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T05:00:02","slug":"master-brewer-the-woman-excelling-in-japans-male-world-of-sake-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26731","title":{"rendered":"Master brewer: the woman excelling in Japan&#8217;s male world of sake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miho Imada has won international acclaim as a <em>t\u00f4ji<\/em>, or master brewer of the traditional Japanese tipple<\/p>\n<p>As a child, Miho Imada promised herself she would never perform \u201cwomen\u2019s work\u201d to support her family\u2019s sake brewery. She saw how her mother juggled looking after five children with cooking three meals a day for groups of visiting seasonal workers, and devoted what little time she had left to doing the accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never saw my mother sleep, and she never seemed to catch a cold,\u201d Imada said. \u201cShe was always working. I thought \u2018there\u2019s no way I\u2019m going to do that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/13\/woman-japan-male-world-sake-brewing-miho-imada\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miho Imada has won international acclaim as a t\u00f4ji, or master brewer of the traditional Japanese tippleAs a child, Miho Imada promised herself she would never perform \u201cwomen\u2019s work\u201d to support her family\u2019s sake brewery. She saw how her mother juggled l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26732,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26731\/revisions\/26732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}