Various local beers shown in Noto, Japan

Various local beers shown in Noto, Japan

KANAZAWA, Japan - Various bottles and glasses of locally brewed beer are shown at the Okunoto Beer Japan Sea Club's restaurant in Noto, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, in this file photo taken on July 22, 2014.

Czech works as brewmaster in Noto, Japan

Czech works as brewmaster in Noto, Japan

KANAZAWA, Japan - Jiri Kotynek from the Czech Republic, home to the Pilsner Urquell brand of beer, holds a glass of locally brewed beer on July 22, 2014, at the Okunoto Beer Japan Sea Club in Noto, Ishikawa Prefecture, where he serves as a brewmaster. He makes the most of his technical prowess honed in his home country at the brewery run by a welfare facility in the central Japan prefecture facing the Sea of Japan.

The People of Okunoto

The people of Okunoto. Farmers build thousand paddy fields. Fishermen, who do not have a fishing port, make salt in pumping salt fields. There are also migrant workers and peddlers. 　 The people of Okunoto, despite the rough seas of the Sea of Japan and the poverty of their half-farming, half-fishing existence, build Senmaida rice paddies (paddies built on sloping land), people make salt the old-fashioned way, the last of the Agehama salt paddies where salt is pumped with labor, the cutting down of Asunaro forests, a tribe of fishermen turned plasterers, women peddling fish, and women peddling fish and vegetables at the morning market in Iida. Women peddling fish, women peddling fish and vegetables at the morning market in Iida, a general merchandise market held in each village 　before winter preparations, and women leaving for Kansai in search of work before winter. The film was shot on an unknown date, and was released on November 4, 1960.

Various local beers shown in Noto, Japan

Various local beers shown in Noto, Japan

KANAZAWA, Japan - Various bottles and glasses of locally brewed beer are shown at the Okunoto Beer Japan Sea Club's restaurant in Noto, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, in this file photo taken on July 22, 2014. (Kyodo)