16 Dec 2016 11:47

Putin likes sake, but he recommends "knowing one's measure"

TOKYO. Dec 16 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said he likes Japanese sake, adding that one should know one's measure when consuming it.

"As to hot springs, I have only managed to touch one hot spring, it's local sake. It's called eastern Beauty," Putin told a press conference on Friday following negotiations with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

"I highly recommend, but I think one should know one's measure, as we say," the president said, responding to a question as to how he liked Japanese hospitality and whether he had managed to touch the thermal springs the city of Nagato, where Putin and Abe met on Thursday, is famous for.