Japan’s green tea exports, including matcha, rose 25% by value to 36.4 billion yen ($252 million) in 2024, driven largely by ...

For thousands of years, in cultures everywhere, people have been fermenting food to preserve and improve its flavor. In ...

EXCLUSIVE: Matcha has been creeping up in popularity in the last couple of years and has experienced a global boom over the ...

Chef Yoshinori Ishii, who earned two Michelin stars at Umu in London, is now back in Japan to find his culinary roots. His ...

Designed by Chromed Design Studio and The Mélange Studio, this 40,000-square-foot cafe expands Café Niloufer’s footprint in ...

"Brewing green tea is both an art and a ritual," says Ayales. "For loose leaf teas like Sencha, 170°F to 185°F is perfect," she explains, "as hotter water can scald the leaves, resulting in bitterness ...

SOWAKA Hotel unveils a new suite of refined cultural experiences designed to bring guests closer to Japan's spiritual ...

Loss of bone density, or osteoporosis, makes you more susceptible to breakage, but green tea may help strengthen your bones. Women over 50 are most likely to develop osteoporosis. Green tea is high in ...

Stainless steel: The most popular type of stovetop tea kettle, stainless steel, is durable, inexpensive, easy to use and easy to clean. However, it does take some time for the water to heat up.

Tokyo hums with arcade bells and neon lights, commuters bustling past one another at speed. But look closer and a gentler rhythm appears: silent platforms, orderly queues. This is gaman, the Japanese ...

Buncheong ware tea bowl, named Naruto, Korea, Gyeongsang-do province, Joseon period, 15th-16th century National Museum of Asian Art Niwa herself is a tea practitioner of over ten years.