However, it can be also said that such prosperity in the beginning of the Showa period brought sad result that many talented people were lost both inside and outside the mainland of Japan due to the calamity during and after World War II.
しかしこのような日本酒の歴史昭和初期の隆盛が、ひいてはのちの戦中戦後の災禍により、多くの人材が本土の内外で失われる悲しい結果を生んだともいえる。