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

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The Borough of Trees is getting a first-of-its-kind Japanese mini-forest this spring – which is slated to improve air quality ...

Incorporating lacquer furniture is an easy way to add a beautiful, timeless touch to any space. Wherever you source your piece—estate sales, flea markets, thrift shops, or hand-me-downs from ...

Learn about our editorial policies Decision trees are major components of finance, philosophy, and decision analysis in university classes. Yet, many students and graduates fail to understand ...

When Suzanne Ross, an English-born artisan based on Japan’s Noto Peninsula, began her 40-year career making traditional Japanese ... apply urushi (lacquer made from tree sap) to the object ...

“The cancer drug irinotecan originates from the alkaloid camptothecin, which was first discovered in Camptotheca acuminata, also known as the Happy Tree, Cancer Tree, or Tree of Life,” she ...

“The cancer drug irinotecan originates from the alkaloid camptothecin, which was first discovered in Camptotheca acuminata, also known as the Happy Tree, Cancer Tree, or Tree of Life,” she points out.

Tree planting can be the most cost-effective way of removing carbon as long as careful choices are made about which type of trees to plant and where. Governments worldwide have committed to ...

or a samurai helmet), the urashi tree (the sap of which is used for Japanese lacquer), and tsuge, a boxwood tree used for making boxwood combs (a good place to shop for those combs is in Tokyo’s ...