Forests as cultural assets and the cultural assets created from them
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 [...]
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 [...].
*Previous column hereFrance, which has achieved forestry that mimics nature, to increase production of large-diameter hardwoods Hitoshi Kadowaki "France, the Land of Hardwoods - [...]
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 [...].
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 [...]...
The general incorporated association "more trees" and Rakuten Group's "Rakuten STAY" have joined forces to promote the Forestry Agency's "Wood Che [...]
Why do human rhythms become stagnant while the forests mark a rhythm that never stagnates? We are now in a "species stagnation" [...].
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 [...].
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 [...].
I believe that Japan is a country of "wood" and "water". However, when we look at the lifestyle of Japanese people today, it is the past tense of "it was a country [...].
In the book "Forestry: German Forests and Japanese Forestry" by Yukikazu Murao, which I introduced in the previous issue, you will find that in the early 17th century, Germany was suffering from timber poverty (Germany: [...]) due to over-cutting.
*Previously, three forest philosophies were formed under the influence of regional characteristics in Germany Read "Forestry: German Forests and Japanese Forestry" by Yukikazu Murao (in Japanese) [...
*Part 1 is hereThe challenges faced by the "Hozoku" forestry philosophy, which was born in 18th century Germany, a country where forests were overgrown, are described in Yukikazu Murao's "Forestry: German Forest [...]
In my previous column, I wrote that Japanese chopsticks were originally "not a tool for carrying our food" and that "the material is made of wood [...].
I am interested in the forestry industry in Germany. There are three reasons for this. One is that Germany is a country that has realized cultivated forestry alongside Japan. And [...].