TOMIOKA, Fukushima Prefecture--The entire “sakura tunnel” formed by cherry trees here was open to visitors for the first time since the nuclear disaster unfolded nearby in 2011. The crowds of ...

There, around 500 mountain cherry blossom trees line a 1.5-kilometer slope leading to the gate of Shinpukuin temple of the Shingon Buddhism sect. An old traditional Japanese house with a ...

This Friday, Ambassador Shigeyuki Hiroki, Consul-General of Japan in New York will be attending a ceremony at Buffalo’s Japanese Gardens where 20 cherry blossom trees will be planted.

As an architect, he is used to working closely with wood, and cherry blossom trees have always been a symbol of the town. Endou Kazuyoshi says his baumkuchen resemble the rings of a tree.