Overall, the selection is wide, but the traditional variety (the kind used in Japanese tea ceremonies) is matcha, a finely powdered green tea.

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The main home is accompanied by a guest house, a Japanese tea house, a gazebo and a green house.

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When Coca-Cola wanted to experiment with a supposedly healthy green-tea-flavoured drink, it targeted young Japanese women first.

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"Japanese films all tend to be rather bland in flavor, like green tea over rice, " he once remarked, a jibe at Ozu's The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice.

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Shoppers could spend a fortune on the finest shade-grown green tea from Fukuoka and seasonally-themed wagashi (traditional Japanese sweets), or simply roam the maze of shops for a feast of the visual variety.

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In a recent Japanese study that looked at nearly 500 Japanese women with stage I and II breast cancer, researchers found the women who drank more green tea before and after surgery had a lower chance of the cancer recurring.

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