{"id":139007,"date":"2021-02-26T15:25:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=139007&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-02-26T15:25:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:25:58","slug":"new-association-established-to-support-export-of-kyushus-authentic-shochu-and-awamori","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/new-association-established-to-support-export-of-kyushus-authentic-shochu-and-awamori\/","title":{"rendered":"New Association Established to Support Export of Kyushu\u2019s Authentic Shochu and Awamori"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry announced it would establish an organization to promote exports of local<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shochu<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">awamori<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. To back up international marketing of these liquors, the new association supports distilleries to enter international competitions, collaborates with overseas influencers, facilitates the development of inter-organizational projects, and more. The bureau is currently seeking initial members, including local distilleries, related associations, trading companies, wholesalers, eCommerce operators, etc. <\/span><b>Source:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyushu.meti.go.jp\/press\/2102\/210224_1.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kyushu METI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-125774\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/shutterstock_1279925950.jpg?resize=1000%2C667&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/shutterstock_1279925950.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/shutterstock_1279925950.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/shutterstock_1279925950.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry announced it would establish an organization to promote exports of local shochu and awamori. To back up international marketing of these liquors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":125774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-139007","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kyushu","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/139007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}