Japanese Ambassador to the UK Koji Tsuruoka attended a traditional Japanese tea ceremony in the Fens to mark the start of construction of the Dojima sake brewery, Cambridge News reported on 1 November. He was joined by MP for South East Cambridgeshire Lucy Frazer and a Shinto priest from Osaka.
Overseen by the Hashimoto family, the £9mn project represents the first sake brewery to be built in the UK. It is estimated it will take nine months to complete.
The first batch of Sake will be available in October 2017.