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Euka Isawa Born in 1993. At 21 she moved to New York on her own and launched the export division of her family’s Katsuyama Brewery, expanding shipments to 25 countries.

She is an International Sake Sommelier and has completed Japan’s Technical Executive Course in Sake Brewing.

With a background in chemistry, she has started her own company while a student at the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Economics, and later dropped out, developed “MiCURA” the world’s first and only sake home‑brewing‑kit brand, and marketed it globally.

Through MiCURA she is a member of the Sake Brewers Association of North America (SBANA), and since 2021 she has lectured on sake brewing at Taiwan’s Chang Gung University.

From 2022 to 2023 she co‑hosted the Mainichi Shimbun “Refalover” business‑leader talk series.

In her hometown of Sendai she founded Shokagura Co., Ltd. and, in spring 2024, opened SENDAI STATION BREWERY Fermenteria—an innovative urban microbrewery model located inside Sendai Station.

Trilingual in Japanese, English, and Chinese, Euka treasures sake as an artwork that lives between human sensibility and science—though she admits she’s very much a lightweight drinker.