Tea-leaf picking starts in Japan

Tea-leaf picking starts in Japan

NAGOYA, Japan - Women dressed in traditional tea leaf picker's costume pick young tea leaves at a ''tencha'' tea farm in Nishio, Aichi Prefecture, on May 2, the 88th day after the setting of spring, traditionally the first day of tea-leaf picking in Japan. Nishio is the country's No. 1 producer of ''tencha,'' the ingredient for Japanese powdered green tea. (Kyodo)

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