Tokyo — Clad in an elegant kimono of pale green, tea ceremony instructor Keiko Kaneko uses a tiny wooden spoon to place a speck of matcha into a porcelain bowl. She froths up the special powdered ...

Social media has turned traditional Japanese matcha into a commercial trend, though its roots lie in Zen Buddhism. A scholar ...

Tea ceremony classes in Japan are bearing the brunt of an acute shortage of matcha as a recent global boom in green tea has ...

TOKYO — Clad in an elegant kimono of pale green, tea ceremony instructor Keiko Kaneko uses a tiny wooden spoon to place a speck of matcha into a porcelain bowl. She froths up the special powdered ...