KYOTO, Japan -- As Japanese matcha takes the world by storm, tins of green tea powder with exorbitant prices are flooding online shopping platforms, and foreign resellers are coming to Kyoto to buy as much as they can.
Food & Beverage
Marked-up matcha: Kyoto vendors battle online scalpers, knockoffs
Uji merchants impose purchase limits to combat bulk buying by foreign resellers
A website resells matcha from Nakamura Tokichi Honten without authorization. (Photo by Masaru Shioyama)
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