{"id":141158,"date":"2021-06-18T13:15:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T04:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=141158&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-06-18T13:15:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T04:15:08","slug":"shochu-awamori-export-network-launched","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/shochu-awamori-export-network-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Shochu Awamori Export Network Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u2019Authentic Shochu and Awamori Export Promotion Network\u2019 for the Kyushu and Okinawa region launched in late May. The organization has ninety-seven members, including 37 local distilleries, 28 domestic and overseas traders, local governments, and other public sectors in Kyushu, local universities, and more. It aims to activate networking and collaborations among member groups to increase regional <\/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;\"> yearly exports to \u00a54 billion in 2025 from \u00a51.5 billion in 2019.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/articles\/20210524\/k00\/00m\/020\/152000c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mainichi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyushu.meti.go.jp\/seisaku\/kokusai\/oshirase\/210422_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">METI<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyukeiren.or.jp\/committee\/index.php?id=3365&amp;committee_id=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kyushu Economic Federation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-141159\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/shochu-photo.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/shochu-photo-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/shochu-photo-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/shochu-photo-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/shochu-photo-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/shochu-photo-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by Fukuoka Now, for image purpose only<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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The organization has ninety-seven members, including 37 local distilleries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":141159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-141158","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\/141158","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=141158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}