Fukushima sake brewer warms shattered fishing community

Daisuke Suzuki helps by doing what he does greatest as life tentatively returns to regular for the devastated fishing communities of Fukushima Prefecture: making sake.

The tōji (sake grasp) and his household have been fortunate to flee with their lives when an enormous earthquake and tsunami devastated the world in March 2011, killing about 18,000 individuals and inflicting meltdowns on the close by nuclear plant.

Within the city of Namie, the catastrophe obliterated the outdated port of Ukedo and its native fishing business, in addition to the Iwaki Kotobuki sake brewery that Suzuki’s household has owned for 5 generations.