More kanji fun. Thu. Sep 28th, 06

I know I said I was going to stop with the green tea stuff, but I have no choice. I was studying kanji today and one of the characters I was writing was tea 茶. The book lists a few words using that kanji. One of them was green tea. Oddly, Basic Kanji Book lists this not as ryokucha 緑茶, but as nihoncha 日本茶, which translates literally as Japanese Tea. So, I have to wonder–is this complete arrogance, or is this the word for Japanese green tea, as opposed to any green tea?