Sarah Marie Cummings




Sarah Marie Cummings


Director of Masuichi-Ichimura Sake Brewery






Education
May 1993Graduated from Pennsylvania State University


Career
May 2004Appointed as the Representative Director of the Japan Sake Brewers Association (the first woman ever to assume this position)
July 2003Appointed as the Executive Committee Chair of the Obuse Sightseeing Marathon
January 2002Established the Committee for the Preservation of Oke Brewing
August 2001Started a cultural saloon, Obusession
December 1999Revived oke-brewed sake (hakkin), the method of sake brewing in wooden barrels (oke), for the first time in 50 years
October 1998Opened a restaurant, Masuichi "Kurabu"
Appointed as the Director of Obusedo Corporation and Masuichi-Ichimura Sake Brewery
July 1997Took part in the restructuring of Masuichi-Ichimura Sake Brewery
January 1996Certified as a kikizake-shi (sake sommelier)
June 1994Joined Obusedo Corporation and launched the Management Information Office