Blue Bottle Coffee founder James Freeman only uses ... The Kyoto slow cold-drip is from a Japanese company called Oji and contains a sequence of five glass globes and connecting filter and pot.

Its work for Blue Bottle Coffee in San Francisco’s cosy South Park neighbourhood ... a stainless steel and birch plywood corner that concocts imaginative zero-proof cocktails like an Oji Old Fashioned ...

This cafe debuts our first-ever bar for mixed coffee drinks, Cold Bar, where single origins, Oji, and cold brew will be alternatingly shaken or stirred in various cocktail-inspired preparations.

Japan’s first blue-blooded hostile takeover has all but collapsed. The venerable Oji Paper’s $1.4bn tilt at the smaller Hokuetsu Paper Mills shocked corporate Japan but it has conceded defeat.