11.14Fri 2025
Reconstructing "Yusan Culture" in Unused Plantations: Tokushima-Based Culture Brand "yusan" Launches
Using disused plantation forests in Mugi Town, Tokushima Prefecture as a field, we reconstruct the relationship between people, culture, and nature starting from sensibility and creativity [...]
11.14Fri 2025
Yurinoki, the "Mother of Japan's Street Trees," From Shinjuku Gyoen to the rest of the country What kind of tree was sought by the urban modernization of the Meiji era?
A spacious park with large trees to admire. Shinjuku Gyoen is one such park where you can take a pleasant stroll. Shinjuku Gyoen is located in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo [...].
11.13Thu 2025
Human resources with "hands on" skills will drive the future. Pioneering the age of AI and robotics by restructuring technical colleges and vocational education.
Now that generative AI provides knowledge instantly, it is becoming harder to create value simply by "knowing". Today, society needs [...].
11.12Wed 2025
Card game that illuminates the "in-between" - Why "wood education x art" is gaining popularity
Why do human rhythms become stagnant while nature keeps an uninterrupted rhythm? We now call it "species stagnation" [...].
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11.8Sat 2025
Nobeoka City Demonstrates Asahi Kasei's DX System, Reducing Complex Forest-Derived J-Credit Application Workload by 90%
Asahi Kasei has recently developed a system to streamline the application process for forest-derived J-Credits. A demonstration test is underway in Nobeoka City, Miyazaki Prefecture [...]
11.8Sat 2025
Benches for Sitting in the Forest: Utilizing Locally Dried Cypress Tops Circular Project Launches from Okazaki
Wood requires a long drying period from felling to shipment, during which the top board spends its “sleeping time.” This time is utilized locally [...]
11.6Thu 2025
The "easy-to-break" Japanese Cedar Built Japan: Tomitaro Toyama's "The Road Cedar Took: Supporting the Lives of Japanese People" (Part 1)
The mainstay of the "circular economy of forests" is, above all, the Japanese cedar. The area of planted forests in Japan is approximately 10 million hectares, of which 441 TP3T [...].
11.5Wed 2025
The Power of Trees Shined at the Paris Olympics Designing a Sustainable Cycle from Forest to City and City to Forest
The Paris Olympics held in 2024. The spectacular and creative staging of the opening ceremony and the success of the athletes who competed in close races are still [...].
11.4Tue 2025
The life course of a forestry technology bureaucrat who worked hard to modernize Japan's forestry industry intersects with the history of slowly growing Japanese cedar plantation forests.
In my edited book, "Forests and Time: A Social History of Forests in the Region," the idea of life course analysis is used as the theoretical framework that runs through the entire book [...].
11.1Sat 2025
Hokkoku Bank Signs Positive Impact Finance Agreement with Mori Mirai Providing Financial Support for Sustainable Timber Procurement and Distribution
Hokkoku Bank signed a Positive Impact Finance (PIF) agreement with Mori Mirai, a timber distribution company, on October 31 [...]
10.30Thu 2025
# Daily Life of Women in Forestry: Kyushu] Connecting the Blessings of the Forest with Techniques, Messages from the Field
The Kyushu region, with its mild and rainy climate, boasts some of the nation's best forest resources, with cedar and cypress trees thriving in the region. Oguni cedar, Hita cedar, and other high-quality [...].
10.30Thu 2025
Students Create Art Forest with Timber from Tochigi Prefecture Project Seeks New Use of Local Resources in Collaboration with Three Universities
In Sakura City, Tochigi Prefecture, Tokyo Denki University, Kyoritsu Women's University, and Hokkai Gakuen University have collaborated to create artworks utilizing wood sourced from Tochigi Prefecture [...]
10.29Wed 2025
Yokohama Municipal Housing Corporation, Japan's First Local Public Corporation to Lease a Six-Story Wooden Building Using Domestic Timber and the P&UA Construction Method
The "Ichigao Condominium Project (tentative name)" promoted by the Yokohama Municipal Housing Supply Corporation has recently been awarded the "2025 Excellent [...]" by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
10.28Tue 2025
Innovative Nature of TFFF, Brazil's Tropical Forest Conservation Fund at COP30: A Hint for the Future of Community Forest Management in Japan
The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be held in November 2025, with Brazil as the [...].
10.25Sat 2025
Obayashi Corporation develops "SynchroMOK," a tool that automates "burn depth calculation," a barrier to mid-size wood construction, and links it to BIM to streamline design.
Obayashi Corporation has been working on BIM (Burn Depth Calculation) for wooden structures in accordance with the Fire Collapse Prevention Performance Verification Method and the Evacuation Collapse Prevention Performance Verification Method.
