Our Story
Our Story
Our story began when our founding member went on a journey to find
out about his family history. He discovered that his roots traced
back to a samurai family who governed the Hitoyoshi / Kuma region of
Kyushu for 700 years and were the originators of rice shochu.
As a means to maintain a connection with his history and share his
story with as many people through experiences, our founders set out
to create a brand of original craft shochu. CHOKU is a manifestation
of our founders’ desire to experiment, pioneer and to share a new
narrative about craft shochu.
Hitoyoshi / Kuma is said to be the birthplace of rice
shochu and is still known as the
most highly condensed
area of distilleries to
population ratio in the world.
