The government is considering measures to prompt Japanese green tea farmers to shift more production to tencha leaves that can be ground into matcha powder, from sencha, commonly consumed in Japan, to ...

Matcha green tea is served to foreign visitors during an event held in front of the mobile tea ceremony room in Yokohama in May 2024. (Photo provided by Chisato Ichikawa) MATSUYAMA -- A tea ...

MATSUYAMA -- A tea ceremony event using a "mobile tea ceremony room" crafted by carpenters specializing in building Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples and palaces in Japan that is traveling around the ...