{"id":68172,"date":"2024-12-05T17:41:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T08:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/05\/sake-japan-divine-gift-given-special-status-by-unesco"},"modified":"2024-12-05T17:41:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T08:41:04","slug":"sake-japans-divine-gift-given-special-status-by-unesco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68172","title":{"rendered":"Sake: Japan\u2019s \u2018divine gift\u2019 given special status by Unesco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rice wine enshrined as part of \u2018cultural heritage of humanity\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It\u2019s brewed in centuries-old mountaintop warehouses, savoured in the country\u2019s pub-like <em>izakayas<\/em>, poured during weddings and served slightly chilled for special toasts.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the smooth rice wine that plays a crucial role in Japan\u2019s culinary traditions &#8211; and is a favoured tipple of celebrities such as Cate Blanchett \u2013 has been enshrined by Unesco, which has put it on its list of the \u201cintangible cultural heritage of humanity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/05\/sake-japan-divine-gift-given-special-status-by-unesco\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rice wine enshrined as part of \u2018cultural heritage of humanity\u2019 Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It\u2019s brewed in centuries-old mountaintop warehouses, savoured in the country\u2019s pub-like izakayas, poured during weddings and serve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,6,71,383,514,88,995,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-culture","category-food-drink-industry","category-heritage","category-japan","category-unesco","category-united-nations","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\/68172","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68173,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68172\/revisions\/68173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}