They brought Assam tea to Taiwan and began trial planting in 1920. By 1930, many large-leafed black tea trees had been planted around Sun Moon Lake, and the Mizui company selected the name Niddo for this product. It competed against Lipton in Europe, and was very well received; it continued to sell briskly right up into the 1950s.
日本人並引進阿薩姆紅茶，一九二○年開始試種，到了一九三○年，日月潭周邊已經種植許多大葉種紅茶，三井株式會社將之取名為「日東」紅茶，與「立頓」在歐洲競爭，十分受歡迎，一路暢旺，直到一九五○年代。