The cherry blossoms that line the iconic Washington, D.C., waterfront are days away from reaching peak bloom, according to ...

Tokyo’s city government is offering employees a four-day workweek aimed at boosting population growth and improving work-life ...

Most visitors are looking for “peak bloom” — when about 70% of the buds have blossomed. The university offers a live webcam ...

Organized crime groups struggling with declining membership and profits are increasingly adopting techniques honed by a new ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan 's official cherry blossom spotters on ... Cherry blossoms, or “sakura,” are Japan’s favorite flower and usually reach their peak in late March to early April, just as the country ...

Cherry trees in Tokyo have begun to bloom in stunning shades of pink, marking the onset of spring in Japan. Tokyo cherry ...

Enzymes originally evolved in high-temperature environments and later adapted to lower temperatures as Earth cooled. Scientists from Waseda University and RIKEN, Japan, discovered that a key shift in ...

University of Tokyo Professor Emeritus Fujii Toshitsugu, who heads the panel, says Japan has not experienced an eruption spreading ash over a wide area in the last 100 years.

The National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. celebrates the gift of Yoshino Cherry trees from the mayor of Tokyo in 1912. While cherry trees can grow in Mississippi, they thrive best ...