Tokyo (CNN) — It’s eaten with almost every meal, used to make sushi, made into sweets, fermented into alcohol and offered to the spirits at religious ceremonies. Rice is everywhere in the diet ...

Learn more about this area here. Many areas around the city - including this 'sakura tunnel' between the Bank of Japan and Nihombashi Mitsukoshi - are still in glorious bloom. But with rain forecast ...

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YAMAGATA — The cherry blossoms have begun to bloom in Kajo Park in Yamagata ... are scheduled to take place on Saturday and Sunday. Japan Sells 141,796 Tons of Reserve Rice in Auction Mixed Feelings ...

The city government has been announcing the blooming of a cherry tree, observing about 50-year-old Someiyoshino cherry tree on the grounds of the city-run gymnasium as a sample tree. The tree was ...

Visitors took photos of the scene despite cooler than usual temperatures and a later bloom than expected.