The three exhibitors at the DTI Tokyo booth who flew from the Philippines into Japan for the Specialty Coffee Association of Japan (SCAJ) with several packs of Philippine coffee in tow.
Rich Watanabe, executive director of the Coffee Heritage Project brought liberica beans from different parts of the country, Ota Katsuhisa, president of PMCEI, brought arabica beans from Mindanao, and Vanessa Velasco, founder of VerraCoffee, brought arabica peaberries from Luzon.