TSUKUBA, Japan -- An institute backed by the Japanese Forestry Agency is working to commercialize the world's first spirits made from wood, hoping to breathe new life into the country's struggling forestry industry.
A new research building was completed Wednesday at the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute in Tsukuba, a city around 50 kilometers northeast of Tokyo. The facility is meant to serve as a centralized hub for the development of wood-based spirits, which previously had been spread out across the area.
