Seasonal employee Daichi Ushiyama, right, and part-time worker Tatsuya Ogawa take out sheets of "sake kasu," or lees, from a filtration unit in a sake making process at the Koten sake brewery in Okaya, Nagano prefecture, central Japan, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024, as sake lees are used for cooking. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)