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FOCUS: As Japanese turn from sake, high school axes last class.

Publication: Japan Weekly Monitor
Publication Date: 03-DEC-01 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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NIIGATA, Japan, Nov. 30 Kyodo

(EDS: FIRST IN A SERIES OF THREE ARTICLES ON SAKE MAKERS' GRIM FUTURE AS SAKE CONSUMPTION DECLINES)

Niigata Prefecture's Yoshikawa High School is the only high school left in Japan that still teaches students how to brew sake, the national rice wine of yore. But the current class will be the last to benefit from the ancient knowledge.

Yoshikawa High will stop enrolling students in the course in the school year starting next April. The decision made by the prefecture's Board of Education was emblematic of the steady decline in the popularity of sake in Japan.

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