Satoen USA was established by Yukiko (Sato) Bloomenthal in Massachusetts in 2018.
Yukiko was born and raised in Shizuoka, one of the premier tea growing regions of Japan. She is the third generation of her family’s tea farming and manufacturing business, Satoen Co., Ltd. (“Satoen Japan”), founded by her grandfather, Matsuichi Sato, in 1948. Her father, Atsushi Sato, built up the business to one of the largest producers of green tea in Japan.
Yukiko’s brother, Kimihiko, serves as the current President of Satoen Japan, with distribution to the domestic Japanese market and elsewhere in Asia.
Yukiko served as Marketing Director of Satoen Japan from 2012 until 2017. She holds a Tea Specialist certification from the World Tea Academy.
about Satoen Japan…
Satoen owns tea plantations in the mountainous Honyama district in central Shizuoka, approximately 150 km west of Tokyo. This area is known as the birthplace of Sencha dating back 800 years, when Buddhist monk Shoichi-kokushi brought tea seeds back from China.
Satoen’s core business is tea production, wholesale distribution, and retail sales to clients and customers primarily in Japan.
Satoen’s “end-to-end” manufacturing system, beginning with tea planting and harvesting and ending with production and quality control, is rarely seen in the Japanese tea industry.
Satoen also produces and sells a diverse range of green tea products, including a variety of teas both loose leaf and bagged, powdered teas, and bottled sencha.
The Satoen Institute of Food and Medicine, a division of Satoen Japan, provides quality control, component analysis, and product research and development to expand the potential of tea.