Sudo Honke

Sudo Honke, Inc.
Native name
 須藤 本家
Industry Alcohol
Founded 1141
Founder Sudo Honke
Headquarters 2215 Obara, Kasama, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
Key people
 Yoshiyasu Sudo (President)
Products Sake
Owner Sudo Family
Website www.sudohonke.co.jp/english/index.html

Sudo Honke (須藤 本家, Sudō Honke) is a Japanese manufacturer of sake based in Obara, a settlement in the present borders of Kasama, and one of the original settlements of Ibaraki Prefecture. Founded in 1141 and run by the 55th generation of the Sudo family, it is the oldest sake brewery in Japan and one of the oldest companies in the world.[1]

Although it was undamaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the brewery was threatened by the subsequent nuclear disaster at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, located approximately 130 km from the brewery. Subsequent tests confirmed no radiation had entered its hundreds of years old source wells.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Jun Hongo, Nuke crisis tested oldest sake brewer, The Japan Times, Aug. 29, 2012, accessed January 8, 2013.


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