Tea Personalities Archives - Global Japanese Tea Association

Meet the Tea Farmer – Tatefumi Mataki

In January we started again our Meet the Tea Farmer events! The guest this time was Tatefumi Mataki, a young tea farmer […]

We often talk about the many challenges that Japanese tea is facing nowadays. One of which, is the lack of young people […]

Our last Meet the Tea Farmer event for this season took place last 24th of August. This time the guest of honour […]

On 20th July we had the pleasure of hosting Kenji Inoue for our “Meet the Tea Farmer” webcast series! Inoue-san is the […]

At the Meet the Tea Farmer of last 23rd of March, we had the pleasure to – virtually – sit down and […]

The traditional whisk used to prepare matcha is called chasen (茶筅). It was invented in Takayama, a little mountain town in Nara […]

On the 26th of January we held the first “Meet the Tea Farmer” event of this year. The guest was Akira Miyazaki […]

Two months ago we decided to start a series of interviews to young Japanese people that work in tea. They have been […]