Japan’s sidewalk restaurants, known as “yatai,” have almost entirely disappeared—except in Fukuoka, where they’ve undergone a ...

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We booked our recent trip to Japan a year in advance to see the cherry blossoms, which only bloom briefly in the spring.

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HADANO, Japan >> Production of salt-pickled cherry blossoms reached its peak in late April in Hadano, Kanagawa prefecture, known for edible yaezakura (double-flowered) cherry blossoms.

It’s finally spring, and for those of us who are lucky enough to have stone fruit trees like peaches, plums and cherries, we are seeing the first blossoms of the ...

Historical records show that near the end of World War II, about 40,000 Chinese people were forcibly brought to Japan and subjected to extremely harsh labor and inhumane treatment, resulting in the ...

Japan's famous for its breathtaking cherry ... eight different species including hawthorn, cherry, cherry plum, and crab apple blossom. Just bear in mind that it's intended as a place of ...

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A budding plum blossom, photographed on Feb. 15 in Futtsu, in Chiba Prefecture, during one of the 72 microseasons that mark the traditional Japanese calendar: this period, between Feb. 14 and 18 ...

Hadano is one of Japan's leading producers of edible multilayered cherry blossoms. The processing facility ... are picked and soaked in salt, plum vinegar and other ingredients for about a month ...