Expertly shaped by at Karimoku’s Japanese workshops, the bears are made from use of solid wood cut from Hiba Cypress logs, enhancing the aromatic qualities of the wood that the Aomori Prefecture ...

In Japan, the small donation boxes placed near convenience store registers often go unnoticed by customers, and those who do contribute to them may not give a lot of thought to where the money goes.

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Japan has a safety deposit box problem. It is just not clear whose problem it is, exactly. For decades, safety deposit boxes ...

Japan has a safety deposit box problem. It is just not clear whose problem it is, exactly. For decades, safety deposit boxes have been where Japanese customers stashed hard cash, jewels ...

The box is an example of Barniz de Pasto work ... record we have for this item simply described it as an ‘old Spanish wood casket’.” Rudyard Kipling's home Batemans in East Sussex ...

In Kyoto, for example, fuki-urushi oak table sets are used at the Shinshindo Kyodai Kitamon-mae coffee shop near Kyoto University, and fuki-urushi large display shelves made of zelkova wood are used ...

The discussions centered on Japan's Act 48 of 2016, or the Act on Promotion of Use and Distribution of Legally-Harvested Wood and Wood Products. The law requires countries which export wood and wood ...

Frank is helping in leading efforts to maintain dozens of duck boxes around Lake Juliette. These simple yet essential structures provide female wood ducks with safe spaces to nest and raise their ...

The world’s first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers, was launched into space on Tuesday, in an early test of using timber in lunar and Mars exploration. LignoSat, developed by ...

The world’s first wooden satellite has blasted off on a SpaceX rocket, its Japanese developers said, as part of a resupply mission to the International Space Station. Scientists at Japan’s ...

The world’s first wooden satellite has just been sent into space, and it could be a game changer. A group of researchers at Japan’s Kyoto University conceptualized LignoSat, as the cube is ...