Angel Zheng's latest endeavor may serve as the highest expression yet of her ikigai — "a passion that gives value and joy to ...

For one, the family's store in Uji, just southeast of the city of Kyoto, still sells tencha, the dried tea leaves that are ground up to make matcha, rather than just the more-profitable powdered ...

Most recently, the cafe held events at the Sugar Room ... made with ceremonial grade matcha flown in weekly from Kyoto, Japan. Each matcha drink, said the brand, is made with organic flavored ...

This cafe’s robust stocks of the stuff ... it has a clarifying and serene effect – like standing near a Kyoto moss garden. Meanwhile, the matcha mango smoothie epitomises social-media thirst.