Yoji HATA / Director of the Research Institute of Gekkeikan

Yoji HATA / Director of the Research Institute of Gekkeikan Yoji HATA (Ph.D from Kyoto University) joined Gekkeikan Sake company in 1983. Since 2005, HATA works as Director of the Research Institute of Gekkeikan (former Okura Sake Laboratory) which was founded in 1909. His challenge at Gekkeikan is finding new ways with scientific approach to best utilize our nearly 400 years of sake-brewing experience to effectively appeal to the consumer by offering innovative and best…

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Constance BARREAULT / Specialist of the Arts and Civilisations of Asia

Constance Barreault arrived by chance in Taiwan in 1990. Asian – and in particular  Chinese and Japanese  – cultures appealed so much to her that she changed her career orientation.  Since her return to France  in 1996, she has given lectures and classes about oriental art and civilization. She also conceives and conducts tours in Japan, Taiwan, China, Myanmar …

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Sylvie AMAR / Designer

Graduate from ENSCI industrial designer, Sylvie AMAR is a passionate creative. In 1997, she sets up her eponymous global design agency, so as to answer various expectations and needs in Art of living, with a very particular specialization : hotel and catering business. Within a few years, her expertise, her elegant and refined style, open up the doors of greatest top chefs. Thus, great names of french gastonomy trust her, such as Pierre Gagnaire, Olivier…

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