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Cyber Chakai aims to make Japan’s tea ceremony traditions more accessible with modern technology

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 4, 2022
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Unobtrusive guidance helps tea ceremony guests understand centuries-old etiquette.

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• Japan
• (culture • fujitsu • green tea • matcha • tea • tea ceremonies • technology • video)

Starbucks adds a Matcha & Coffee Cream Pop to the menu in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Dec 15, 2021

We try an elusive green tea cake made with marshmallows.

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• Japan
• (cake pop • cakes • coffee • COK • cute • exclusive • limited edition • matcha • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • taste test)

New luxury kuromitsu matcha frappe hits McDonald’s Japan’s McCafé for a limited time

• Katy Kelly
  Sep 3, 2021

Savor a syrupy signature Japanese flavor with this new frappe — before they’re all gone!

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• Japan
• (drinks • frappe • kuromitsu • matcha • McCafe • McCafe by Barista • McDonald's Japan • tasty • Uji Matcha • yoka)

Got a sweet tooth? Here are our reporters’ favorite new-release convenience store desserts

• Dale Roll
  Aug 5, 2021

Try one of these seven tasty treats the next time you have a sweets craving!

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • chocolate • convenience store food • convenience stores • desserts • Family mart • ice cream • Japanese convenience stores • Lawson • matcha • Mini Stop • parfait • sweets)

Japan has “Matcha Ink”…that you can drink?

• Dale Roll
  Jul 17, 2021

These matcha delicacies are gorgeous, and so is their packaging!

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• Japan
• (beautiful • COK • drinks • food • green tea • matcha • matcha latte • Matcha Republic • sweets • tea • Uji Matcha)

Krispy Kreme releasing new donuts and drink that blend Japanese flavors and European desserts

• Dale Roll
  Jul 5, 2021

Delicious Japanese flavors of European classics turned into donuts!

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• Japan
• (donuts • food • green tea • Krispy Kreme • Krispy Kreme Japan • limited edition flavors • matcha • matcha latte • panna cotta • sweets • Uji Matcha • yuzu)

Starbucks releases 47 Frappuccinos around Japan, we try the one for Nara Prefecture

• Oona McGee
  Jul 2, 2021

Can this Frappuccino capture the flavour of a region famous for deer and the giant Buddha? 

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• Japan
• (COK • drinks • Frappuccinos • green tea • hojicha • K. Masami • matcha • Nara • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • taste test)

Starbucks Delivers: New service expands in Japan with exclusive sets for delivery customers

• Oona McGee
  Jun 1, 2021

Doughnut and matcha sets you can’t buy in stores.  

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• Japan
• (delivery • donuts • doughnuts • Frappuccino • green tea • Iced Matcha Tea Latte • matcha • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)

“Drinkable pistachios”: A nutty matcha lover’s dream beverage

• Oona McGee
  May 31, 2021

Pistachio and matcha are a match made in green tea heaven! 

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• Japan
• (cafes • cool • drinks • green tea • latte • matcha • Omotesando • pistachio • taste test • Tokyo)

Ikea Japan adds epic matcha sweets to its menu for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  May 31, 2021

Gorgeous celebration of matcha includes a very unusual tunnbröd you won’t find anywhere else in the world.

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• Japan
• (desserts • food • green tea • ikea • ikea japan • limited time • matcha • shopping • sweets)

Trying Starbucks Japan’s secret limited-time Iced Matcha Tea Latte 【Taste Test】

• Shannon
  May 29, 2021

Our Starbucks expert finds a hidden new green tea drink on the menu.

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• Japan
• (Iced Matcha Tea Latte • matcha • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • taste test)

Godiva vs. Haagen-Dazs: Who’s got the best limited-edition flavors of spring?

• Dale Roll
  Apr 20, 2021

Three different flavors and textures–but one clearly comes out on top. 

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• Japan
• (almonds • comparison • cookies • Godiva • Häagen-Dazs • Häagen-Dazs Japan • honey • ice cream • matcha • seasonal • taste test • tasty)

Red Matcha: A new type of Japanese powdered tea years in the making

• Oona McGee
  Apr 14, 2021

Soon you’ll be able to enjoy a very different type of Japanese tea ceremony.

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• Japan
• (crowdfunding • drinks • green tea • Japanese tea ceremony • Makuake • matcha • new • tea)

Mister Donut Glossy Green Tea shows true beauty is on the inside, even for desserts【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 13, 2021

Team-up with Kyoto tea merchant is lovely to look at, but looks even better when you see what’s inside.

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• Japan
• (COK • donuts • Gion Tsujiri • green tea • matcha • Mister Donut • SNJO • sweets • Tsujiri)

“Glossy green tea donuts” sound weird, look amazing in Mr. Donut team-up with Kyoto matcha master

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 9, 2021

Mr. Donut mixes an array of traditional Japanese flavors into a new lineup of irresistible sweets.

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• Japan
• (anko • azuki • COK • donuts • food • Gion Tsujiri • green tea • kinako • kuromitsu • matcha • Mr. Donut • sweets • Tsujiri)

We try the new Häagen-Dazs Decorations ice creams in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Mar 27, 2021

Has the brand improved on their first release, when its decorations looked more like Chinese food?

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• Japan
• (COK • desserts • food • green tea • Häagen-Dazs • ice cream • Japanese desserts • Japanese sweets • matcha • review • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Are Mister Donut’s new sakura and matcha doughnuts all they’ve been hyped up to be?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 15, 2021

A 161-year-old green tea company from Kyoto takes the helm for new “Blooming Matcha” collection.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • COK • collaboration • donuts • doughnuts • food • Gion Tsujiri • green tea • matcha • Mister Donut • sakura • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Sakura and matcha star in new Mister Donut collection

• Oona McGee
  Mar 11, 2021

Created with the help of a 160-year-old green tea company from Kyoto.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • collaboration • donuts • doughnuts • food • Gion Tsujiri • green tea • matcha • Mister Donut • sakura • sweets)

Starbucks Japan goes back to the matcha past with new stone-milled green tea drinks at Roastery

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 10, 2021

Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo adds classical tea culture equipment so that it can make matcha the old-fashioned way.

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• Japan
• (cafes • cool • drinks • green tea • matcha • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo • tea)

Shinkansen ice cream sales suspended on board bullet train, sell out online

• Oona McGee
  Mar 2, 2021

These Shinkansen-exclusive ice creams are so famous they even have their own hashtag.

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• Japan
• (bullet train • food • ice cream • Japanese trains • matcha • shinkansen • sweets • trains)

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