The cherry blossom season, Japan's traditional sign of spring, has peaked at the earliest date since records began 1,200 years ago, research shows. The 2021 season in the city of Kyoto peaked on ...

Naoke Abe's public lecture will cover how an eccentric British horticulturalist saved the Tai Haku cherry breed, with a huge ...

The people of Japan and millions of tourists should now be enjoying the start of the cherry blossom viewing, or hanami, season. It's an extremely important time of year for the country ...