In Japanese calligraphy, the brush stroke is the most important. Each stroke has to be made with precision and fluidity, as ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The Cherry Blossom Festival has returned to Purdue Fort Wayne’s campus for the 18th year. Last year, nearly 11,000 people attended the festival, which features a ...

The Hiroshima Memorial Grove has 50 Japanese cherry trees and was inaugurated in December, 1987. By 1989, another 60 trees were added to commemorate the 110,000 people killed by the atomic bomb in ...

Washington D.C. is not the only city in America with a bountiful bouquet of cherry blossoms this spring. In 1926 Japan presented the City of Philadelphia with a goodwill gift of 1,600 blooming cher… ...

Cherry blossoms draw people every year to the Japanese Garden, created by community groups after Buffalo’s Japanese sister city Kanazawa gifted a two-legged Kotoji lantern to Buffalo in 1964.