The Asahi Shuzo Brewery based in Osogoe, Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, has a 200-year history and took a significant risk. In 1984, its management restructured the company and only focused on producing Junmai Daiginjō sake with a rice polishing rate of 45% or higher. Asahi Shuzo's gamble paid off, and the company reinvented itself as a producer of high-quality sake. Streamlining their production, they produce only Junmai Daiginjō sake with a milling rate of 45%, 39%, 23%, and their "Dassai Beyond" with an "undisclosed ratio of rice polishing". Asahi Shuzo produces all around the year to provide the freshest sake possible to consumers and has become one of the most popular and well-known brands in Japan and abroad.