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	<title>Kyoto Obubu Tea Plantations</title>
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	<description>Tea leaves from tea farmers.</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>
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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>
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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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		<title>Canned Matcha Drinks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have been to Tokyo and other major cities in Japan, you would have noticed the large number of vending machines that line the cities. Canned drinks have become a daily part of the lives of people in Japan. Not only you can have a nice hot coffee before you board your train but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sakura Maccha Latte Kit Kat</title>
		<link>http://www.obubutea.com/2012/01/matcha-kit-kat/3345</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matcha fans! Spring is the season to enjoy many different kinds of matcha flavored goodies in Japan. Although, it&#8217;s still a couple of months away, convenience stores and supermarket shelves are already lined with various types of matcha flavored snacks. Kit Kat in Japan is known for its unique flavored chocolate series &#8211; from green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRESS: Thank you KBS Television for the introduction!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to KBS Television (Kyoto) for featuring Obubu&#8217;s Owner&#8217;s club!! Unfortunately for everyone else, the entire segment is only in Japanese&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Tohoku Caravan Day 12: &#8220;All You Need is Love&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Onsen and Lunch at Natorishi no Yuriage Today was a BIG day. After breakfast our large group took the caravan towards Sendai, stopping by more tsunami affected areas. We made our destination at Natorishi no yuriage, a hotel with onsen (public bath). We invited a large group of tsunami survivors that are now in temporary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tohoku Caravan Day 11: Unity and Rebuilding in the Cold</title>
		<link>http://www.obubutea.com/2012/01/tohoku-caravan-day-11-unity-and-rebuilding-in-the-cold/2980</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article by Elyse Petersen (Obubu intern from Hawaii). Click on photos to enlarge. Continuing Our Tour Around Ishinomaki Matsumoto and our volunteer driver “Arizona” went alone to today’s activities. The rest of us spent the day playing tourist as we were guided to a large and beautiful shrine in Ishinomaki and more of the tsunami [...]]]></description>
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