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Sakura Square, home to a third-generation family-owned grocery store specializing in Japanese and Asian foods is the site of several new murals by a Denver artist.
Sakura Square, home to a third-generation family-owned grocery store specializing in Japanese and Asian foods is the site of several new murals by a Denver artist.
Walk Japan, a tour company known for its “off-the-beaten-path” routes through Japan, leads a remarkable 11-day, 10-night ...
Residents are invited to take part in hanami, the centuries-old Japanese tradition of flower viewing under the park's blooming cherry blossom trees. According to the city, the trees typically ...
The Charles B. Wang Center at Stony Brook University hosted their 25th Sakura Matsuri: Cherry Blossom Festival, co-produced by Wang Cultural Programs, the Japan Center at Stony Brook, and Ryu Shu ...
In April of 1959, the then-ambassador to Canada, Toru-Hagiwara, gifted 2000 sakura trees to Toronto on behalf of Japanese citizens as a thank you for the city's Japanese-Canadian refugees after ...
But this isn't just any ordinary cherry blossom tree grove; it's also the domain of 97-year-old Tōemon Sano: Japan's most renowned sakuramori (cherry blossom guardian). For more than a millennium ...
For more than 80 years,Sano has utilised his specialised knowledge to steward the survival of sakura trees in gardens throughout Japan and the world – including at the Isamu Noguchi-designed ...
Yoriko and Yukari gather every year to celebrate the blooming of the cherry blossom trees at Merville Garden Village Once a year a housing estate in Newtownabbey, County Antrim becomes a special ...
A Taiwanese tourist faced intense online backlash after vigorously shaking cherry blossom trees in Japan to create a romantic “cherry blossom rain” for photos. The unidentified woman was ...
The former shared a screenshot of the wild animal tearing off flowers from a Japanese Sakura tree on the subreddit r/Mizkif and claimed it was assaulting the tree. For context, earlier this month ...
The Japanese themselves have a tradition of enjoying the beauty of sakura through hanami. At Arakurayama Sengen Park, tourists have the opportunity to see sakura trees against the background of Mount ...