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

Ex-Japan PM Taro Aso to attend Pope Leo XIV's inaugural Mass on Sunday ...

"We live nearby but we have just come out to have some fun, get some pictures around the cherry blossoms," she says. "Last year I saw people from Japan mostly, and quite a few from around here." ...

Each spring during sakura (cherry blossom) season, the Ninna-ji and Daikaku-ji temples in Kyoto's leafy Ukyo ward are overwhelmed by busloads of tourists who come to snap photos of the temples ...

"We live nearby but we have just come out to have some fun, get some pictures around the cherry blossoms," she says. "Last year I saw people from Japan mostly, and quite a few from around here." ...

According to Naoko Abe, cherry blossom expert and author of The Sakura Obsession, skilled sakura arborists have existed in Japan since time ... Ninna-ji Temple garden; and, of course, at the ...