Kato Sake Works – Born in Tokyo, Made in Brooklyn w/ Shinobu Kato

On this episode of Small Business Japan I talk with Japanese sake brewer Shinobu Kato about redefining authentic local Japanese sake as he begins his new sake brewery in Brooklyn, New York. Shinobu is from Tokyo, Japan, where he went for college and started his career at Softbank. In 2004, he moved to the US to attend the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Upon graduation, he worked at Nissan in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2016, Shinobu left the corporate world and moved to Brooklyn, NYC to start a sake brewery.

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