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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 [...].

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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.

10.24Fri 2025

Cosmetics Using Noto Hiba to Support Reforestation of Ishikawa's Prefectural Tree Ate NAIA Donates Part of Sales to Prefectural Forest Association Fund

NAIA, which develops the Nature Science cosmetics brand, is helping to build a cycle of sustainable use of Noto Hiba resources [...].

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.

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 [...]...

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