Sudo Honke

Sudo Honke, Inc.
Native name	須藤本家
Industry	Alcohol
Founded	1141
Founder	Sudo Honke
Headquarters	2215 Obara, Kasama, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
Key people	Yoshiyasu Sudo (President)
Products	Sake
Owner	Sudo Family
Website	www.sudohonke.co.jp/english/index.html

Sudo Honke (須藤本家, Sudō Honke) is a Japanese manufacturer of sake based in Obara, a settlement in the present borders of Kasama, and one of the original settlements of Ibaraki Prefecture. Founded in 1141 and run by the 55th generation of the Sudo family, it is the oldest sake brewery in Japan and one of the oldest companies in the world.^[1]

Although it was undamaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the brewery was threatened by the subsequent nuclear disaster at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, located approximately 130 km from the brewery. Subsequent tests confirmed no radiation had entered its hundreds of years old source wells.^[1]

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^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Jun Hongo, Nuke crisis tested oldest sake brewer, The Japan Times, Aug. 29, 2012, accessed January 8, 2013.

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[JT082912-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Jun Hongo, Nuke crisis tested oldest sake brewer, The Japan Times, Aug. 29, 2012, accessed January 8, 2013.

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