The farmers behind the tea.

c7h8n4o2. The chemical formula for theobromine — the alkaloid that gives cacao its native bitterness, its faint warmt...

In Part 1 of this article, we looked into the work done by Oguri Tea Farm, a tea merchant in Makinohara, as well as i...

For 35 years, the Sugita family has been growing tea leaves in Makinohara, Shizuoka, together with Oguri Tea Farm, a ...

Eighteen cultivars. That is how many tea plants Ishiyama-san tends on his farm in Sashima, a quiet corner of Ibaraki ...

"My farm's been around a long time. But my grandfather and my old man both died pretty young, so I never heard much a...

Forty-five hectares. That is the area of tea fields Shimokubo-san manages. Roughly ten Tokyo Domes, if that helps — ...

Abandoned rice terraces, cut into the mountainside decades ago, now given over to tea. Stone walls furred with moss, ...

Most tea producers in Kagoshima talk about their cultivars. Segawa-san talks about the person holding the teapot. Ho...

"I couldn't find a teapot I actually wanted." The words came out easily, almost casually. But they stopped me cold. ...