Bonsai trees are a wonder of nature bent by the hand of man. But before your love for these works of living art prompt you to plunk down some yen and take one or three home, take note. This small ...

During a trip to Japan years ago, I visited a village in Omiya, in Saitama prefecture outside Tokyo, where more than a dozen families grew and sold bonsai. “We get visitors from all over the world all ...

Omiya is one of greater Tokyo's rare pockets of residential comfort that can accurately be defined as middle class — a trait it shares with places such as Chiba's Ichikawa Mama or southwestern Tokyo's ...

Photo taken on April 13, 2019 show the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum in Saitama, Japan, on April 13, 2019. (Xinhua/Du Xiaoyi) TOKYO, May 8 (Xinhua) -- "Imagine yourself as a little bug standing under ...

SAITAMA -- It's a rainy day in autumn, drops glistening on the bulky trunk and outstretched branches and leaves of a majestic tree -- a scene worthy of some grand landscape out of a story. But this ...

"Imagine yourself as a little bug standing under enormous tress when appreciating the beauty of a bonsai," said Hiroyuki Aoki, a Japanese bonsai artist, when describing his unique experience with the ...