Tomonori Morikawa

Biography

 Morikawa Shuzo has weathered challenges aplenty in its 125-year-plus history of preparing high quality saké. Launched in 1887, the family brewery in the Hiroshima hills has survived wartime rice shortages, brewing limits and even the loss of the Morikawa house and business in floods. But with seventh-generation head Tomonori Morikawa at the helm, and younger brother and master brewer Motoharu at the vats, Morikawa Shuzo is looking to surmount a new—self-presented—challenge. Already providing much of East Asia, the U.K. and France with premium artisanal sake, the unique brewery aims to bring Japanese culture (in liquid form) to the rest of the world, too.

Research Interest

 Food, Nutrition