you’ve earned yourself double points. The official largest camphor tree in Japan is at Kamou Hachiman shrine in Kamou-cho, Kagoshima Prefecture. It boasts an enormous 33.57-meter root ...

When American businessman Brian Heywood decided to build a home in Kamakura, he wondered if he could also save some old ...

When Japan took the island ... No traces of the camp remain, and a junior high school now stands there. But a camphor tree in the school's courtyard is said to have been there since the days ...

Also known as mountain cherry trees, yamazakura are one of the most common types of sakura in Japan. As indicated ... This giant camphor tree may be approximately 3,000 years old.