CONTRIBUTORS
ANNA GREENHOUS, LONDON
FREELANCE SAKE JOURNALIST
TWITTER: @TASTEWINESAKE
Anna Greenhous works freelance in both the wine and sake trade. She fell in love with sake
researching for an expat magazine drinks column whilst teaching in Japan. Since then she has
spread the word back in the U.K, presenting tastings at L’Atelier des Chefs cookery schools and
writing about sake for Harpers (drinks trade magazine).
ANTONY MOSS, LONDON
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PLANNING, WSET
WWW.WSETGLOBAL.COM
Antony is a Sake Samurai and the Director of Strategic Planning for the Wine and Spirit
Education Trust (WSET), where he has worked since 2004. His current role covers long-term
business planning, and new product development: this means he has been spending a great
deal of time exploring breweries in Japan while working on the development of a new WSET
qualification in Japanese sake.
CHIZUKO NIIKAWA, NEW YORK
JAPANESE SAKE PRODUCER, FOUNDER OF SAKE DISCOVERIES, CO-FOUNDER SAKE JOURNEYS
WWW.SAKEDISCOVERIES.COM
Chizuko earned her prestigious Sake Sommelier Certificate at the Sake Service Institute (SSI),
in Tokyo, Japan and is a Sake Samurai. Working in New York, she founded Sake Discoveries
in 2008. In addition to promoting breweries, planning sake events and parties and conducting
activities such as staff training, she also helps organise and coordinate events at the request of
government agencies, brewing unions and the like.
MAMI HARADA, TOKYO
CALLIGRAPHY ARTIST
WWW.66MAMI66.COM
Mami Harada is a Tokyo-based calligraphy artist who has created this quarter’s journal cover
artwork. Having first held a brush at 9 years old, she is a graduate of Daito Bunka University’s
Calligraphy School. Mami mainly focuses on exhibitions, logo creation, and live painting while
also tackling character representation as paintings and visual products.
MARIE CHIBA, TOKYO
MANAGER OF MOTO SAKE BAR, TOKYO
TWITTER: @MARIMARIMO125
In university, Marie becomes aware of the beautiful taste of sake and the fun of customer service.
She joined the Moto standing sake bar in Shinjuku as bar staff. She began to take an avid interest
in the world that Japanese sake represents and today, besides running the bar as manager, she
spends her holidays v