10.21Tue 2025
The reason why people want to drink under a cherry tree Japanese people connect "food" with wishes and thoughts about trees
When you visit a shrine or temple, you may see a person placing his or her hands on a large tree that is said to be as long as a thousand years old. Trees are exposed to rain, dew, and water in the air [...].
10.21Tue 2025
MOKUTEI" Project to Restore Forests in Cities Launched at Tokyo Tatemono Yaesu Building Reproducing "Fallen Tree Renewal" to Create a Cycle of Well-Being and Biodiversity
Tokyo Tatemono is collaborating with Livanes on a project called "Moku Niwa (木庭)" (もく [...]), in which city dwellers can regenerate a natural forest while living in the city.
10.17Fri 2025
A Model for Sustainable Forest Recovery Shown by France's Diverse Selection of Tree Species Read "France, Land of Broadleaf Trees: From 'Right Tree in the Right Place' to Natural Forestry" by Hitoshi Kadowaki (Part 2)
*Previous column hereFrance, which has achieved forestry that mimics nature, to increase production of large-diameter hardwoods Hitoshi Kadowaki "France, the Land of Hardwoods - [...]
10.17Fri 2025
Life Design Kabaya Wins Good Design Award and Wood Design Award for CLT Hybrid Construction Method to Promote Use of Lumber from Okayama Prefecture and Establishment of Circulating Wooden Housing Supply Chain
Life Design Kabaya, whose core business is the sale of wooden houses, is promoting a "regional recycling-oriented housing supp [...]" promoted under an industry-government-academia collaboration in Okayama Prefecture.
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10.17Fri 2025
Aomori University to hold a study group on comparative environmental thought on October 30 to explore the relationship between forests and people from the perspective of "forest aesthetics.
Aomori University's Research Center for Comparative Environmental Thought will hold its second meeting of the 2025 academic year on October 30. This time, the Hokkaido University Agricultural [...].
10.16Thu 2025
# Daily Life of a Forestry Girl: Kinki/Chugoku] Doing Hard Work and Raising Children! Bringing a New Breeze to the Work Site
The warm and humid climate of the Kinki and Chugoku regions is rich in forest resources, with coniferous trees such as Japanese cedar and cypress being produced in abundance. [...].
10.16Thu 2025
Warm Ie," a cabin that coexists with the forest in Kitakaruizawa, receives Good Design Best 100 Award for resource-recycling architecture that utilizes local hardwoods.
Kitamoku, Ryu Mitarai Architects, and Mt. Toi collaborated to build "Dankyo" in Kitakaruizawa, Gunma Prefecture.
10.15Wed 2025
Unmanned Helicopter to Streamline Acquisition of Forest Data by Single Tree Unit Remote Sensing Verification Demonstration Launched through Cross-Industrial Collaboration of Oji HD, Yamaha Motor, and Precision Forestry Measurement
Oji Holdings, Yamaha Motor, and Precision Forestry Measurement have collaborated on the acquisition and analysis of forest information using remote sensing [...].
10.15Wed 2025
Forests that are in circulation with water, food, and the local community
Memories of roasting homemade Tochimochi (rice cake with homemade bean paste) on the stove at a relative's house in the mountains of Shinshu, deep-frying thin-skinned chestnuts and eating them with a little [...].
10.14Tue 2025
Sustainable Forest Management and Institutional Design Learning from Switzerland Integrated Management of Public Forests to Create Forest Cycles
Why has the "circular forest economy" not been realized in Japan? Chapter 7 of "Forests and Time," for which the author was in charge of writing, "Forest Management's Party Nature [...].
10.10Fri 2025
People and Society Inheriting Forests that Have Lived for a Long Time: Memories of Seven Communities Depicted in "Forests and Time
It was last summer when I published a book titled "Forest and Time: A Social History of the Region Surrounded by Forests" with my fellow researchers from Shinsensha Publishing Co. We went to the backwoods [...]...
10.9Thu 2025
Stay and experience the charm of interior and amenities made of domestic wood in collaboration with "WOOD CHANGE PROJECT" and "Rakuten STAY" in Hakone.
The general incorporated association "more trees" and Rakuten Group's "Rakuten STAY" have joined forces to promote the Forestry Agency's "Wood Che [...]
10.9Thu 2025
Innovations in Technology for Easily and Accurately Measuring Forests Visualizing Forest Resources with a Simple Forest Measurement Tool Using a Commercially Available All-Sky Camera
In recent years, the role that forests play in the realization of the SDGs (*1) and carbon neutrality by 2050 (*2) has attracted much attention [...].
10.8Wed 2025
A New Form of Wooden Education: A Wooden Card Game to Nurture Dialogue
Why do human rhythms become stagnant while the forests mark a rhythm that never stagnates? We are now in a "species stagnation" [...].
10.7Tue 2025
Why have non-native conifers taken root in Inokashira Park? How to enjoy the forest living in the city
Some of you may make it a routine to take a walk in a park for your health or to refresh your mind. The word "park" is used in a word [...].
10.6Mon 2025
Forest Ecosystem Conservation and Management - Forests, Wildlife, and Landscapes" Focusing on "Forest Aesthetics" as a literacy to decipher complex issues such as the increasing seriousness of animal damage.
The increasing severity of animal damage caused by bears and deer is casting a shadow over both forest ecosystems and local communities. As scientific disciplines become increasingly fragmented [...].