From booze to bioenergy: Japanese factory to convert waste from shochu production into fuel Today 05:01 am JST Today | 06:58 am JST TOKYO Anabuki Housing Service Corporation, a condominium management company, held an inauguration ceremony on April 7 for its Shochu Bioenergy Miyazaki Nichinan Plant in Nichinan City, Miyazaki Prefecture. Since 2014, the company has been working closely with the University of Miyazaki in a public-private collaboration to refine ethanol for biofuel from the waste generated in the process of making shochu, a type of distilled alcohol famous in Miyazaki Prefecture. In so doing, they have aimed at solving the problem of processing shochu waste.