A tea merchant in this central Japan city has launched an original green tea blend inspired by the illustrations on packaging ...

Shizuoka is home to Mount Fuji, an icon of Japan’s natural beauty. While the mountain is visible throughout most of Shizuoka Prefecture, it is best experienced by visiting towns like Gotemba and ...

Green tea is a major industry in Shizuoka prefecture, on Japan’s Pacific coast. Over a third of the tea leaves produced in the country come from Shizuoka. A Google search for “Shizuoka ...

elderly tea farmers are abandoning their mountainside tea farms. To raise awareness of such issues and introduce Shizuoka green tea to the world, Akito Ohashi, who grew up on a tea farm in ...

the Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka will welcome an array of must-see events next year – from early cherry blossom, giant kites and doll festivals to spectacular firework displays and green tea ...

Until now, Shizuoka Prefecture had placed first since record-keeping began in 1959 while Kagoshima was ranked second for many years for producing "aracha" (unrefined or raw green tea), where ...

had a tea punch that it recommended as a mixer for Bourbon or rum. Shizuoka Green Tea (shizuokatea.com) of Walnut, Calif., had individual packets of green tea powder to dump into a bottle of ...

a "tea pairing" campaign to promote the drinking of tea with complementary meals is underway in Shizuoka. I bet this campaign is taxpayer funded. Spending money encouraging people to be particular ...

Japan has detected radiation above the legal limit in tea grown in Shizuoka, the heart of the nation's green tea industry, officials said Friday, blaming the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. A tea ...

SHIZUOKA—Long the top tea-growing prefecture in Japan, Shizuoka has been surpassed by Kagoshima, dropping into second place for the first time since record-keeping began in 1959. For many years ...

Just over 2 pounds of hand-rolled green tea leaves from Japan sold for a record-breaking 1.96 million yen—or about $15,500—at auction on Monday as fuel and material costs rise, according to ...