In local beauty brand Sigi Skin’s Sweet Sakura Collection, its Butter Glaze Lip Jelly ($32) gets a springtime makeover with a ...

Among them was Kayo Hayashi, who was a student at Shiroyama Elementary School (formerly Shiroyama National School) during the war. Her story exemplifies the profound loss endured by the community ...

In a poignant ceremony held on the 2nd of September 2023, the Higashi Honganji temple in Kyoto celebrated the planting of two symbolic trees—"Cypress II," progeny of a tree that survived the atomic ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a story with a couple of oft-quoted lines: “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different ...

It is time to be in Japan. And now. On Monday (March 24), the Japan Meteorological Agency confirmed that the 2025 cherry ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a ...

You don't need to visit Japan or Washington, D.C. to see cherry blossom trees. Here are three places around the U.S. where ...

Tuscaloosa celebrates the Sakura Festival in Snow Hinton Park. The festival celebrates the cherry blossom as a sign of spring ...

The first blossoms of the season popped open last week in Tokyo. At the Yasukuni Shrine, a lone Somei Yoshino tree revealed ...

Few species of plant generate awe like the cherry blossom. Every spring, after the dank of winter, the blooming trees turn ...

Mike Litterst, a spokesperson for the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said the cherry blossoms offer a sense of hope for ...

Tourists and Japanese locals marvelled at Tokyo's cherry trees on Monday at the peak of the annual blossom season that ...