Per Oscar Brekell

Born in Sweden in 1985, Per Oscar Brekell developed an interest in Japanese tea during his high school years, which grew into a passion that led him to relocate to Japan. In 2010, he studied at Gifu University and in 2013 returned to Japan to work for a Japanese company. He became a certified Japanese tea instructor in 2014, completed an internship at the Tea Research Center in Shizuoka and has been working for the Japan Tea Export Council. In 2018, he set up his own business and is now involved in tea education projects overseas and in arranging tea events and seminars in Japan. He is the first non-Japanese to receive a certificate for making handrolled sencha, and in 2016 he was awarded the CHAllenge Prize by the World Green Tea Association.