After the diverse and exotic coffee houses of Manila, let’s travel further and learn more about the coffee culture of this hi-tech country. Japan is basically known for its tea, but surprisingly the country is now among the largest coffee consumers among the importing countries, the market is growing steadily. Coffee is relatively a new phenomenon in Japanese history. Japan isolated itself from the outside world from 1638 until 1853 (sakoku), Nagasaki was the only place which was accessible by foreign merchants. Dutch merchants were the only consumers of coffee in Japan and the Japanese did not appreciate the black drink right away. However, by the end of the isolation…