Editing Bubble tea (section)

=== Japan ===
Bubble tea first entered Japan by the late 1990s, but it failed to leave a lasting impression on the public markets.<ref name=":13b">{{Cite web |last=Shih |first=Yi-yun |date=2019-06-06 |title=How Taiwanese Bubble Tea Conquered the Taste Buds of The Japanese |url=https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=2429 |access-date=2021-04-09 |website=CommonWealth Magazine |archive-date=21 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190921060827/https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=2429 |url-status=live }}</ref> It was not until the 2010s when the bubble tea trend finally swept Japan.<ref name=":13b" /> Shops from Taiwan, Korea, and China, as well as local brands, began to pop up in cities, and bubble tea has remained one of the hottest trends since then.<ref name=":13b" /> Bubble tea has become so commonplace among teenagers that teenage girls in Japan invented a slang for it: ''tapiru'' (タピる). The word is short for drinking tapioca tea in Japanese, and it won first place in a survey of "Japanese slang for middle school girls" in 2018.<ref name=":13b" /> A bubble tea theme park was open for a limited time in 2019 in [[Harajuku]], [[Tokyo]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Roll |first=Dale |date=30 July 2019 |title=Bubble Tea Amusement Park to Open in Harajuku |language=en |work=Japan Today |url=https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/bubble-tea-amusement-park-to-open-in-harajuku |access-date=2021-04-09 |archive-date=31 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031095059/https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/bubble-tea-amusement-park-to-open-in-harajuku |url-status=live }}</ref>