But with the Games less than five months away, many spectators, and some Olympic committees, have expressed concern about the food from Fukushima
US actor Gerard Butler poses with the Olympic flame during the Olympic flame relay in Sparta on March 13, 2020 ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Picture: VALERIE GACHE / AFP
“I needed some time to think about how I could recover from this,” Miyamori told Reuters on a recent tour of his “sakagura,” or sake brewery, Miyaizumi Meijo, in Fukushima's city of Aizu Wakamatsu.“I know people outside Fukushima were concerned about safety of rice and water,” said Miyamori. After taking over in 2003, Miyamori pushed to directly oversee the sake-making — an anomaly in a business where normally the production is outsourced to brewing teams led by the “toji,” or chief brewer.
But Miyamori says he could not lead the rebound of the region's sake on his own. He was first inspired to take over his father's brewery after coming across Hiroki, a rival sake from the region, also led by a next-generation owner Kenji Hiroki.
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