Japanese Tea Report – July 2026
The first major development for the month of July is the registration of Japanese Tea under Japan’s Geographical Indication (GI) Protection System […]
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Japanese Tea Report – January 2026
Kirin Beverage announced that it will relaunch its green tea drink Kirin Namacha on March 10, featuring an enhanced manufacturing process to […]
New Publications on Japanese Tea
We have frequently discussed the challenge of finding Japanese tea publications in other languages. While we’ve reviewed a few in the past, […]
Caffeine in Japanese Teas
Very often in the West we hear the question: how much caffeine does a kind of tea have? I am afraid to […]
Meet the Tea Farmer – Yuko Tsuchiya
On the 29th of March, we had the last Meet the Tea Farmer event before the spring tea season. This time it […]
Meet the Tea Farmer – Morihiko Yamamoto
On 22nd February we had one more Meet The Tea Farmer Event. This was the turn of Morihiko Yamamoto, 5th generation tea […]
Bancha (番茶)
In the past we have published a few articles about different kinds of bancha. Nevertheless, we have never explained before what the […]
Meet the Tea Farmer – Toshihiro Kajihara
Our last Meet the Tea Farmer event for this season took place last 24th of August. This time the guest of honour […]