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Word from Uji

March 16, 2011

Our friend, TsuYoshi, sent this yesterday:

However, we have a store in Sendai, which is at the very center of the quake, fortunately all of our employees are fine, and Tokyo is affected a lot in the view of the developing chaos..
We will wait for the Nuclear power plant problem cool down, and then I am sure things will be moving once again…I hope…..but, everything is okay at Uji and with Shohokuen. there is not and won’t be any problem in producing tea, and that is what we can only do, producing good tea, that’s what we are here for.

Mike Harney

Michael Harney has been the tea buyer and blender of Harney & Sons for twenty years. He travels to Asia and meets with tea producers from all the major tea countries, looking for the season's best teas. A graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration, he lives with his wife and their three sons in Salisbury, Connecticut.

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