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		<title>Inaugural World Tea Farms Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Obubu Intern :: Elyse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2-Day Festival of a Thousand Tea Farmers and Tea Lovers All-You-Can-Drink from around the world India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Korea, Japan (Wazuka, Shizuoka, Yame, Kyoto, Nara…) Date and Time: Saturday 3/10/2012 – Sunday 3/11/2012 10AM-4PM Location: Green Tea Wazuka Town, Soraku District, Kyoto Prefecture Shuttle bus to event location will be available from JR Kamo Station Admission Fee: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uji Tea Tasting Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Obubu Intern :: Elyse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend Akky-san and I participated in a very competitive tea tasting tournament in Uji. About 30 people tasted 5 rounds of 5 different teas varied by the region in which they were grown. This was my first time to challenge my palette with Japanese teas, but I had a great time learning. The top quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine&#8217;s Day in Japan Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Japan, Valentine’s Day is no small business for both consumers and confectionery companies. A box of chocolate contains different layers of meanings so you got to read them right. Receiving a box of chocolate in Japan on Valentine’s Day can mean love, friendship or simply a burden. First of all, it is only the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our interview on NowServingTea.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Valentine&#8217;s Day in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Obubu Intern :: Elyse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are currently preparing for the shipment of Obubu&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day chocolate. This year we have partnered with a patissiere from Nara named Kubo to create AMAZING green tea chocolates made from white chocolate and matcha powder. During the product development period I had the great fortune to taste the chocolate. All I have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Intro to Japanese Tea Ceremony Utensils</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Hones The Tea Ceremony, or Chanoyu, is a Japanese cultural art as well as a philosophy and spiritual discipline. Chanoyu, literally translated, means “hot water for tea”. Today, tea ceremony is often referred to as chado or sado, meaning “the way of tea”. At first glance the tea ceremony may seem to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleepy Tea Fields</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Obubu Intern :: Elyse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Winter season there is not much working going on in the fields. When I ask Akky-san what his work is for the day he says that it is limited to applying fertilizer. Although there is not much work going on the fields are still as beautiful as ever. I took a Friday afternoon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tohoku Caravan &#8211; Reporting with Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Obubu Intern :: Elyse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article by Elyse Petersen (Obubu intern from Hawaii). Click on photos to enlarge. Tea Relief Caravan Closure Since finishing the Tea Relief Caravan on January 19 our team of volunteers has been reporting on the situation in Tohoku and the power tea had to bring light to communities that have experienced so much heartache in the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tohoku Caravan Closing Event</title>
		<link>http://www.obubutea.com/2012/01/tohoku-caravan-closing/3430</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 21, 2012, Matsu-san and the Tohoku Tea Relief Caravan team members were in Tokyo for the closing of the charity project. The team just came back from a trip to a tea plantation in Minami Ashigara city in Kanagawa Prefecture. Continuing with their busy schedule, they presented a summary of their activities during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interning at Obubu</title>
		<link>http://www.obubutea.com/2012/01/interning-at-obubu/3413</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Obubu Intern :: Elyse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aloha, my name is Elyse Petersen. I am a student in the Japan-focused MBA program, a program of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Shidler College of Business and the Japan-America Institute of Management Sciences. As part of my degree I must complete a 3-month long internship at a Japanese company to put my Japanese business knowledge to [...]]]></description>
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