Jason Cooper’s fascination with Japanese food and drink began when he lived in Kyoto, Japan while going to language school. “It’s been a 20-year rabbit hole for me,” he says. After initially focusing on Japanese cuisine with a food truck called Wabi Sabi Kitchen, Cooper decided to open a sake brewe...

Vladimir Putin and Kirill Dmitriev. Getty Images Share While headlines are now consumed with Trump’s “Reciprocal Tariffs” — a sweeping trade assault targeting nearly every country on the planet, with one glaring exception: Russia — and U.S. media obsessed over Trump’s latest theatrical outburst, hi...