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IT IS SAID that green tea contains large portions of the health-giving vitamins A and C. If this is so, the Japanese are the healthiest human beings in the world. They down green tea like the servicemen down free beer. 

Green tea is Japan's favorite drink and it is drunk all day long, at home and at work. It is served with every meal.

In popularity, green tea is equal to coffee in America. Kofii (it sounds like and is, but it is pronounced co-he) does not appeal to the Japanese like the mild, fragrant tea but it is gaining in popularity. Japanese city folk even prefer it. This, a switch, is an American influence.

Servicemen take to green tea and some service clubs in Japan, like the club at Yokohama, even stage a "Green Tea Time." There comes a day when the GI passes up coffee for the hot, green-colored drink, and from then on the coffee pot becomes a rather idle thing.

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