Prof Yasuyuki Aono’s meticulous work charted shifting bloom dates as a marker of climate change ...

Some of the earliest Japanese cherry trees are believed to have been brought to the UK by a Kent man.

TOKYO -- As cherry blossoms begin to bloom across Japan, concerns are rising after a tree fell over and injured a visitor at Kinuta Park in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on March 7. The park, famous for its ...

In Tokyo, the birthplace of Japan’s popular Somei Yoshino cherry blossom variety, many of the trees planted during the country’s postwar advancement of the 1960s are now getting old and frail.

WASHINGTON — Japan is giving the United States 250 new cherry trees to help replace the hundreds that are being ripped out this summer as construction crews work to repair the crumbling seawall around ...

Furniture by six leading creatives include chairs, tables and benches with an imaginative approach to traditional wood ...

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Reuters) - Very little was left standing in the Japanese city of Rikuzentakata after a huge tsunami tore through nearly a year ago. Even the centuries-old pine forest by the sea ...

NINOSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western island started making the treat that has thrived in ...