Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Young Japanese nostalgic for the country’s Shōwa era are opening their own traditional coffee shops, called The number of peaked ...

TOKYO — Walking in the quiet neighborhood, you begin to wonder whether you’re in the right place. The building isn’t marked, and the address is gatekept unless you’ve secured a reservation. Inside, a ...

Japan, traditionally a tea-consuming nation and home of the green tea that is fast proliferating in tea markets across the West, might not naturally be considered a coffee-loving nation. But coffee is ...

Japan’s traditional coffee shops — known as kissaten, which flourished in the 1980s — are disappearing, eclipsed by specialty drip shops and global chains, and faced with a dwindling number of aging ...

When Yumi Yamauchi moved to the United States from Japan, she couldn’t find a cafe that was serving the kind of coffee or matcha she was used to drinking. “There’s more flavored coffee, more sweet ...