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Witch hazel plant brightens up the landscape with colorful flowers and foliage. Here's how to add this eye-catching shrub to your backyard.
The Tohoku Regional Forest Office in the city of Akita has announced that beech trees in five Tohoku prefectures of ...
When it comes to flowers with love meanings, most people just think “oh, red roses mean love, duh!” But wait, have you ever wonder what secret messages those ...
Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty ...
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The office surveyed the status of flowering beech trees at 51 sites in the prefecture between April and June, classifying them into four levels. Of those sites, 36 sites, or 70%, did not bear any ...
Aging Population and Wellness Trends: As Japan’s population continues to age, the demand for indoor plants and therapeutic ...
There’s a secret hiding in Philadelphia that feels like stepping through a portal to Japan, no passport required. Tucked away in Fairmount Park sits Shofuso Japanese Cultural Center, a slice of Kyoto ...
MITO — Many flowers of hydrangea shrubs float on a pond at Amabiki-Sanrakuho-ji temple, known as Amabiki-Kannon, in Sakuragawa, Ibaraki Prefecture. About 5,000 hydrangeas of 100 varieties are planted ...
The history and beauty of Ikebana, the traditional Japanese art of flower arranging, will be revealed in a one-day workshop in New Denver.
<p>Rows of wind chimes hang at Shojuin Temple in Ujitawara, Kyoto Prefecture, for the annual Wind Chime Festival. The relaxing sounds of the about 2,000 wind chimes help visitors feel cooler in the ...