tea

Tea consumption increasing, beating coffee
Starbucks opened its first store in Japan in 1996 on Matusya-dori Avenue in Tokyo's Ginza.
Why do people the world over drink tea? Is it because they prefer its taste to flavorless water, or because it clears the head, as opposed to clouding it like alcohol does?...
VOX POPULI: Hashimoto, Ishihara offer up a strange...
People starting out afresh often do so with a change of hairstyle. Toru Hashimoto of the Japan Restoration Party recently began portraying himself in an orthodox "conservative" ...
Inspections failed to detect cesium-tainted...
Government tests that detected levels of radioactive cesium exceeding the legal limit in tea products made with famous "Sayama tea," a high-end brand of green tea leaves...
Tainted green tea leaves in France green tea, not...
SHIZUOKA--The dust-up with France over tainted tea leaves took a twist June 21 when the Shizuoka prefectural government said the tea in question was green tea, not...
Tea exporter disputes French cesium measurements
A Shizuoka prefectural government official collects refined tea leaf samples June 10 at a tea refinery in Shizuoka Prefecture for inspections. (Takehiro Tomoda)
SHIZUOKA--Exported tea that the French government says contained double the European Union's safety standard of radioactive cesium has been tracked down to a company in...
Radioactive cesium found in 5 more tea refineries
Shizuoka Governor Heita Kawakatsu, center-background, publicizes Shizuoka tea in the prefectural government office on May 18. (Asahi Shimbun File Photo)
SHIZUOKA--Tea leaves containing concentrations of radioactive cesium exceeding national safety standards were found in five more refineries here, officials of the Shizuoka...
Radiation above standards found in Shizuoka tea
Heita Kawakatsu, governor of Shizuoka Prefecture, answers questions from reporters at the prefectural government office on June 9. (Ryota Goto)
Shizuoka Prefecture said June 9 that 679 becquerels of radioactive cesium were detected per kilogram in refined tea leaves processed by a plant in its jurisdiction, exceeding...
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