Activists want to replace a variety of cherry tree associated with the Japanese colonial era with one they say is Korean. The science is messy. Cherry trees on the verge of blooming in Gyeongju, South ...

TOKYO (AP) — Many of Tokyo's popular and iconic Somei Yoshino cherry blossom trees were planted during Japan's postwar advancement in the 1960s, and are now getting old and frail. Some have fallen and ...