KOSHU, Yamanashi Prefecture--This central Japan prefecture is now firmly established on the world map of wine making after two products won the second-best Platinum medal at the Decanter World Wine ...

Drive into the town of Katsunuma, in Japan’s Yamanashi Prefecture, and you might not realize that you’re entering one of Asia’s best-known wine-producing regions. Instead of the rolling hills striped ...

Japanese wines are distinctive in character, yet different. Production may not be so different from wine production in other countries, but there is no other place where your wines have grown in the ...

Long renowned as an agricultural hub rife with orchards and pristine water sources, a group of viticulturists, distillers and brewers are quietly developing Yamanashi into a hub of Japanese wine, ...

During my years in Japan, I have climbed Mount Fuji, camped alongside her lakes and marveled at the dramatic scenery of the Kofu Basin that surrounds Yamanashi Prefecture’s capital city. However, ...

The Misawa family founded Grace Wines in Yamanashi in 1923 and the winery is regarded as one of the country’s best, particularly when it comes to koshu, a delicate-tasting grape that has been grown in ...

Yamanashi Prefecture is known as Japan’s wine country. Within it, Narusawa Town at the base of Mt Fuji is famous for its abundant growth of cabbages. So, doesn’t it just make sense that the people of ...

Yamanashi might be more known for wine, but in economic terms another beverage is far more important to the prefecture: water. Forty percent of Japan’s bottled water comes from Yamanashi sources. The ...

Leaving Tokyo and heading for the mountains and the sea, I realized something. The sky seems so vast, and looking at the mountains, I can see at a glance which direction I'm walking. It's so ...