For 16 generations, master gardeners in this one family have dedicated their lives to preserving one of the nation's most ...

The colour and timing do a convincing impression of sakura, the cherry trees that veil Japan each spring in delicate petals.

Here are five treats that pay homage to the bubblegum-pink blooms this sakura season. Tsuchi, a plant-based Japanese café is serving a “Meatball” Sakura Bento, which contains Sakura Edamame Rice, ...

Each spring during sakura (cherry blossom) season, the Ninna-ji and Daikaku ... it's also the domain of 97-year-old Tōemon Sano: Japan's most renowned sakuramori (cherry blossom guardian).

According to Naoko Abe, cherry blossom expert and author of The Sakura Obsession, skilled sakura arborists have existed in Japan since time immemorial. But thanks to the popularity of the 1970s ...