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Somei-Yoshino trees become dormant in autumn and require a period of stimulative cold weather during the winter months to rejuvenate their systems, ANN News reported. Without a cold spell of below 5 degrees Celsius, the trees are not jolted out of their slumber and are unable to produce blossoms, the agency reported.
Umio Otsuka, 63, a former Maritime Self Defence Force (SDF) commander and a one-time ambassador to Djibouti, confirmed his appointment, which marks the first time since 1978 for an ex-military official to assume the post.
Japan is launching a new high-speed bullet train, or shinkansen, extension on Saturday that will make an under-the-radar prefecture far more accessible to travelers.
TOKYO — Japan's Yasukuni Shrine has picked a former military commander as its chief priest in a move that could stir controversy over a site that other Asian nations see as a symbol of Japan's wartime aggression.
William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."
TOKYO -- Japan should establish a timeline for moving away from coal power and set more ambitious emission reduction targets, the new U.S. climate envoy said this week while hinting that such topics could be raised at the U.S.-Japan summit next month.
TOKYO -- Nippon Steel said its purchase of U.S. Steel would strengthen "American supply chains and economic defenses against China" in a statement released on Friday.
TOKYO -- Japan's foreign workforce has seen its landscape change because of shifts in wages and exchange rates, with Vietnamese workers overtaking Chinese workers as the largest group last year while workers from Indonesia nearly tripled from 2018.