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Tokyo Shimbun Profiles Clear CEO Ryuji Ikoma and SAKE HUNDRED
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Tokyo Shimbun profiles Ryuji Ikoma, CEO of Clear, and the SAKE HUNDRED brand. The report explains how Clear develops sake concepts, flavor and aroma with established breweries rather than operating its own brewery, in the context of Japan’s restrictive licensing system for new sake producers.
The publicly available portion traces Ikoma’s path from sake media to product development and describes the 2018 launch of Byakko with Yamagata-based Tatenokawa Shuzo. It also covers the brand’s focus on higher-priced sake.
Read the original Japanese article on Tokyo Shimbun (membership required for the full text).
