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Nurture a rich spirit through contact with wood and forests, and learn about relationships with nature and sustainable living

3.24Tuesday, 2026

The Economics of "Sanshinrei" Connecting Fragmented Forests and Cities - From Anonymous Supply Chains to Co-Creation and Circulation

*Previous columns are here [From a Shinto priest's perspective] The principle of "toshin," or restoring reflux, as a manner of forest circulation [Key points of this article] Section [...].

2.14Sat 2026

Revision of Building Standards Law Expands Use of Wood in School Construction Mitsui Home Builds Wooden Extension to RC School Building at Fukushima Junior High School

Mitsui Home and Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. have completed a two-story wooden junior high school building addition at Sakura no Seibo Gakuin Elementary and Junior High School in Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture [...].

12.11Thu 2025

The Value of Wood Education in Capturing "Ma"──Resilience Inspired by Forests and Shinto

Forests possess the power to revive time and again, even after being destroyed. Fallen trees invite light, moss covers the soil, and tiny sprouts begin to emerge [...]

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" [...].

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 [...]

10.8Wed 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" [...].

8.21Thu 2025

Wearing wood and drawing wood...Experience the possibilities of domestic timber at Expo 'Wood Change 2025' in Osaka, Kansai

The Forestry Agency is holding an exhibition "Wo [...]" at the Future Life Village at Expo 2010 Osaka-Kansai to introduce outstanding examples of the use of Japanese lumber.

8.13Wed 2025

Machida City and Tamagawa Gakuen sign business collaboration agreement to use trees in public spaces as educational materials and for educational programs

Machida City, Tokyo, and Tamagawa Gakuen signed a new business collaboration agreement on August 12 to utilize and recycle trees in the city as resources [...]

4.25Fri 2025

A card game to "think about the future of forests while playing" Attention as a new type of forest and tree education tool

moritomirai," a card game jointly developed by Yamanashi Nichinichi Shimbun and Project Design, is the new [...].

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