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In 2007, Shinkai released 5 Centimeters Per Second, an anime movie that was his feature film solo directing debut. Eighteen years later, the movie is getting a live-action adaptation, and Japanese ...
This super-colorful, fully renovated townhouse is in the affluent neighborhood of Kenwood, which is famous for its wide streets lined with cherry blossom trees that draw up to 30,000 visitors a ...
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 ...
Torontonians are upset after some people were seen disrupting Japanese cherry blossoms over the weekend as the trees are in peak bloom across the city. Watching the Sakura trees fully bloom in ...
Cherry blossom trees in High Park and across Toronto are expected to reach peak bloom later this week, the city said. Peak bloom begins when at least 70 per cent of the blossoms are open ...
Such friendship and goodwill is, after all, how the trees got here in the first place. In April of 1959, the then-ambassador to Canada, Toru-Hagiwara, gifted 2000 sakura trees to Toronto on behalf ...
The garden includes a traditional Japanese gate in between the cherry blossom trees. The Kawachinagano Japanese Garden at Carmel City Hall, a serene space completed in 2009 as part of the 15th ...
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 ...
But thanks to the popularity of the 1970s novel Sakuramori about a sakura-infatuated tree expert, communities began bestowing this title to deserving specialists in the years that followed.
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 27-year-old said: "I captured the beautiful cherry blossom trees in full bloom in Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill. They were at their best as the sun was setting." The broadcast and IT ...
Few species of plant generate awe like the cherry blossom. Every spring, after the dank of winter, the blooming trees turn parts of Long Island into seas of pink and white foliage. Long ...