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Sake (also spelt saké) is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting polished rice. Despite the name, Japanese rice wine, sake, and indeed any East Asian rice wine (such as huangjiu and cheongju), is produced by a brewing process more akin to that of beer, where starch is converted into sugars...

Natsume Sōseki (夏目漱石, 9 February 1867 - 9 December 1916), born Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目 金之助), was a novelist and a scholar of English literature whose works focused on the transformation of Japan from a backward country to a modern nation by scrutinising its civilisation and society and describing...