News & Updates

Nara Medical University (奈良県立医科大学, Nara Kenritsu Ika Daigaku) reported on November 27th, 2020 that their research confirms that green tea sold in the market can kill or make the virus harmless in their study. 

The research is the first stage of the study, and they have not tested with the human body yet; however, adding COVID virus in green tea for one minute reduced their Infectious by 99%. Click here to read more.

Do you miss all the tea festivals and events?
We do.
Japanese Green Tea Co. had a booth at first-ever Virtual Tea Festival at International Virtual Tea Festival happening on Nov 7 and Nov 8. 2020
Click here to see a video from the event and to read more about it.

Japanese Green Tea Company regularly hold a booth at Portland Night Market.

The Portland Night Market showcases many unique and diverse businesses that call Portland home. Blending food, culture, music, drinks and retail together for an adventurous evening in the Central East-side.

Here are some videos and photos from the events.  

Japanese Green Tea Company held booth at Northwest Tea Festival 2019 in Seattle from 9/28/2018 - 9/29/2019.

This is the second year at this event. Here are some of the pictures from the 2018 fair and my personal thoughts from the first-time experience of this type of event so that you can see how it was like at the fair, and read about my thoughts and all the lessons-learned from this event. 

Thank you very much for participating in Matcha Box Design Contest. 

It was very exciting to see so many people participating and commenting on the contests.  We really appreciate all the input. 

Here is the result from the contests with selected comments from you. We also have a link to the actual produced product with your selected design. 

You might have seen this video.     
We made a fun stop-motion video which shows you How to Make Perfect Cup of Matcha.   
In this blog post, I share with you how we made this amazing and fun video.  It is really a lot of effort, tricks and magic that went into this 30 seconds video. 

Japanese Green Tea Company was honored to be part of 2019 Japan Fair held in Seattle (Bellevue) WA during weekend of June 29th 2019.Here are pictures from this fun event!
As this is one of the most authentic Japanese event in the Northwest, we are very honored to be part of the fair. 

We had a booth at Sakura-Con 2019 held at Washington Convention Center in Seattle, WA USA on April 19-21 2019. Sakura-Con is the oldest and most well attended anime convention in the Pacific Northwest.

It was the first time experience for us, and had lots of fun.  Here are photos from the exciting event including behind the scene photos. Click here to see the photos!

The November 30, 2018 issue of Vancouver Business Journal mentions Kei Nishida, CEO of Japanese Green Tea Company. Kei has been taking night class to learn about social media for business for over three years. The article is about the course and mentions Kei and Japanese Green Tea Company.

On September 21st 2018 issue of J-Weekly, Kei Nishida's article about Japanese green tea was featured on full page.  

J-Weekly is Japanese newsletter in San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California circulating 33,000 copies every Friday. 

J-Weekly approached Kei to write about Japanese green tea in their special fall gourmet issue.