with sake brewing, location is important many rice grown in the splendid, natural environment of tateyama will eventually spread around the world in the form of sake. >> reporter: he expects his first batch to be ready in december. and when it is, the japanese will have a new companion. nhk world, toyama. >>> okay. it's time to bring jonathan oh into the picture to walk us through this hour's weather outlook. what's on your radar, jonathan? >> we're talking about some clouds, early morning rain and colder weather as wheell. temperatures are going to be dropping a little below average. you're going to want to definitely keep the winter jacket around, because it's going to stull be a b going to still be a bit of a rollercoaster ride. may see a warmup in the begiing ofext week. and next week we're going to march. yeah, we're going to see an appropriate change, i think, as we head toward the beginning of next week. here's a look at the forecast for now. what's happening is we had a low pressure system and a front push eastward. that's reason why we had that rain overnight in tokyo and the puf