Best I can tell the business is just run like any other Japanese business under Japanese law exclusively and has naught to do with France. From their site: "Made up of French and Japanese tea enthusiasts, Thés du Japon reflects the complexity and high standards required to operate at the world-class level. Thés du Japon is governed by Japanese law, and is registered at the Osaka Chamber of Commerce in Western Japan." .aet wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:38 pmI was referring to the actual name . "Thés du Japon" ... , so I assume the western cooperating counterpart is FR. And the only explenation which comes into my mind here is that the deal between JP and FR has changed , so the payments in yen and other currencies are not at the same rate ( might not be even going to the same bank account from now ) .
If I'm correct , then screaming and shouting will not decrease the prices to the fair JPY rate, but will either raise up the prices in yen or disabling the yen visibility to non JP users ( base on IP , which be bypassed with VPN ) .
In any case, they can congratulate themselves, as buyers still want to stick with them despite the extreme price raise. In other shops cases , I believe, the people would just go like "pfff....lets buy from someone else then " . But here it almost looks like " let's write them an open letter " ...I'm impressed by the loyalty and wish to be able work out our selves to this stage as well.
I guess no one knows the real reason they decided to do this besides them. The easiest explanation is that it probably nets them more money from sales from foreigners, but who knows if that is the real reason or not. Maybe something changed in Japan but best I can tell the other Japanese vendors are still functioning same as always.