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News from World Green Tea AssociationWorld O-CHA Forum 2003
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| Shizuoka Convention and
Art Center “GRANSHIP” Shizuoka city, Japan February 14-16th, 2003 |
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| World Green Tea Association
was established in 2001 by Shizuoka Prefecture Government in
cooperation with various tea related organizations and individuals
in order to promote research and study on green tea, to convey
the health benefit of green tea and to develop tea industry,
tea culture in the world. World Green Tea Association, which has already made several Seminars and Symposiums on green tea since last year, is now preparing for Exhibition & Seminar, Symposium ” World O-CHA Forum 2003” at Shizuoka February 2003. |
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Exhibition "World Tea Market" |
/ Main floor, 10:00 –17:00, February 14-16th |
 Japanese
Green Tea |
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New varieties of green teas in Japan, including tea variety “ Benifuuki” which is expected to be good effective for allergy against pollen. | |
| Awarded excellent Japanese green teas and fine Japanese green teas grown and processed by awarded farmers in Shizuoka | ||
| Tasteful green teas such as Sencha, Matcha, Gyokuro from various product regions in Shizuoka and Japan | ||
| New green tea products such as flavor green tea, green tea processed by innovative tea processing machine etc | ||
| Tea
in the World |
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| Various kind of green teas, oolong teas, black teas, flavor teas and herb teas from China, Africa, Sliranka etc | ||
| Sweets
for Tea |
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| Various and tasteful Japanese traditional sweets, sweets made of green tea, etc | ||
| Tea
wares |
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| Excellent Japanese tea wares |  |
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| New
products made of tea |
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| Japanese
green tea cafe |
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| Excellent tea and sweets all of Japan | ||
Special Events |
| Tea
tasting competition |
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Enjoying and tasting different green tea varieties | |
| Chinese
way of Tea |
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| Chinese traditional way of tea performed by Ms Ryu-Li from China | ||
| Seminar
how to brew tasteful Japanese tea |
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| Teaching how to enjoy tasteful green tea | ||
| O-CHA
live concert |
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| Tea song festival performed by young musicians and street musicians | ||
| The
way of tea for children |
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| Enjoyable experience brewing Matcha and Gyokuro as like great tea | ||
Seminar and Symposium |
| Report:
“Tea variety “Benifuki” effective for allergy” |
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Ms Mari Yamamoto Maeda,
National Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science February 14th, 11:00 – 12:30, (Presentation in Japanese, with English translation) |
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| Research
report: “ Research on ingredients of green tea varieties
in the world” |
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| In cooperate with International
Life Science Institute of Japan February 14th, 15:00-18:00 (Presentation in English) |
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| Research
on ingredients of green tea varieties in the world” |
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Dr Hara, Tokyo Foodtechno co.ltd |
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| Outlook
of tea growing in the world |
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| Several guests from Africa, South America, etc. | ||
| Symposium:
“ Green Tea and its health benefit” |
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| Organized by Shizuoka Prefecture
University February 15th, |
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| 9:00-11:50 Symposium 1 “Chemoprevention” (Presentation in English) | ||
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“ Recent advances on the mechanisms of cancer chemopreventive and hypolipidemic effects of tea and tea polyphenols” |
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“Cancer preventive activities of tea : How do we integrate information obtained from studies in vitro and in vivo?” |
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“Anti-angiogenic effect of green tea polyphenol through inhibition of membrane-type 1 matrix metalloproteinase, MT1-MMP” |
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| 13:00-18:00 Symposium 2 “Novel function of green tea” (Presentation in Japanese) | ||
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World Green Tea Association |
O-CHA (tea) Promotion
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World Green Tea AssociationAddress:Shizuoka O-CHA Plaza, 14-1 Minamicho, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka City,Shizuoka Prefecture,422-8067 Japan tel: +81-54-654-3700 Fax; +81-54-202-1460 E-mail:info@o-cha.net |