More than 2,000 firefighters, backed by military helicopters, are battling Japan’s biggest forest fire in three decades, as the blaze burns thousands of hectares of land every day. Officials on ...

Built to honor Japan’s Emperor Meiji (1867-1912), the Meiji Shrine and its 178-acre park are among Tokyo’s main attractions. Nattee Chalermtiragool/Alamy Stock Photo ...

Photo Shows Circular 'Experimental Forestry' Project in Japan? The circular forest was allegedly planted to "measure the effect of tree density on growth." Aleksandra Wrona Published Oct. 4, 2024 ...

In Japan, however, 44 percent of forest lands are plantations, compared with a global average of 3.5 percent. Every year during the 1960’s, over 2.1 million acres of deciduous forest was ...

In December 2017, Logan Paul faced intense backlash for posting a YouTube video that showed the body of an apparent suicide victim in a forest in Japan. In Touch looks back at what happened in the ...

Native plants crowded onto postage-stamp-size plots have been delivering environmental benefits around the world — and, increasingly, in the U.S. By Cara Buckley The tiny forest lives atop an ...

Within East Asia, 87.0% of planted forest is in China, followed by 11.1% in Japan, 1.0% in South Korea and 0.9% in North Korea. Previous maps of East Asia’s planted forests covered only parts of the ...