"Sadou", a tea ceremony, is one of the Japanese traditions to serve "Matcha", a kind of powdered green tea.
"Sadou" is usually a formal event, but in Tokyo a large scale tea ceremony was held to introduce the traditional Japanese tea culture.
They brought a number of "Sadou" schools together to serve it to people from overseas and those unfamiliar with the tea ceremony.
Tokyo Grand Tea Ceremony was held at Hamano-Rikyu Gardens, one of the traditional and most beautiful Japanese gardens in Tokyo.
An annual event held since 2008, it aims to create a lively atmosphere that everyone can experience green tea in "Sadou" manner.
We are glad to have this opportunity to introduce Japanese tea by inviting so many guests who experience tea ceremony at first time, or participates in our English tea ceremony program," said Keiju Watanabe, representative, Tokyo Federations of Kadou and Sadou.
International visitors enjoyed a special outdoor tea ceremony with English interpreter. The visitors also enjoyed a Japanese sweet along with green tea.
"Back in Germany, I've had a green tea, it was kind of just bitter, but this tasted so much different, and it was very relaxing, and it was very delicious," said a visitor from Germany.
The event was part of the Tokyo Culture Creation Project, an organization supported by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to promote "Tokyo as a city of global cultural creativity".
Tokyo Grand Tea Ceremony introduced the world of Japanese hospitality, each host wears a beautiful kimono, each movement they make has a meaning to welcome the guest.
During the same week, one of the Asia's largest cutting-edge IT and advanced technologies comprehensive exhibitions, CEATEC Japan 2014, was held for 5 days at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture.
A total of 547 exhibitors including 150 foreign exhibitors from 24 countries exhibited the latest achievements in IT and consumer electronics.
"We've travelled here to look at new technologies that come to automotive markets, and learn about the new concepts that are being developed here, that hopefully we'll see in North American markets in the future," said a media visitor from Canada.
"I've been coming to CEATEC for 6 years, French people are obsessed with Japan, and they are very interested in Japanese culture, but also by Japanese technology," said another media visitor from France.
OMRON expressed the advance of its technology by the table tennis robot that plays continuous rally.
The thoughtful Ping-Pong Robot wins this year's Grand Prix in the CEATEC Innovation Awards, "as Selected by US Journalists".
Omron has polished its sensing and control technology to develop a robot that can grasp human movement to offer new value and actions to match that movement.
"We've been developing such technology, as we look at in the future of machines and people comes to work together at the factory in cooperate with each other in harmonious relationship, and the robot becomes more familiar to our daily life. This time we developed the continuous rally table tennis robot as the result of those technological advances," said Shinji Kawakami, Omron Corporation.
Panasonic showcased its impressive lineups of 4K products and solutions, introducing 4K World, which is expanding from B2C to B2B, built on technologies cultivated for its consumer electronics with the aim to realize a Better Life, a Better World.
As the Official Worldwide Olympic Partner, Panasonic has supported the Olympic Games with professional devices equipped with the leading visual technology.
In the "touch and try" corner, visitors can experience the Panasonic's expanded world of 4K camcorders and 4K wearable cameras.
Demonstration shows unique 4K photo function, which allows users to extract a desired still photo from 4K video.
Panasonic proposes a rich lifestyle by expanding the 4K offers from "capturing", "recording" to "watching", it's showcasing the new 4K display boasting the highest resolution and performance in the history.
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"People are interested by the next TV, but also by all of the Robots that Japanese are so good at making it, and the new technologies for house, how the technology is going to change my daily life, or eat better, feel better, be cured better, so it's all about that," said a visitor from France.
The amalgamation of Japanese tradition and newer technological innovations has amazed the world.
