One reason why there was no legal penalty can be found in the lush remote forests in northern Japan. One day in late ... prefectural employees do the “harvesting” twice a week from June ...

In a survey conducted by the Tohoku Regional Forest Office ... bear appearances in northeastern Japan, were determined to be having an “extremely poor harvest” in the prefectures of Aomori ...

Tokyo: Firefighters and helicopters were combating a blaze in a forest on a Japanese island on Friday, with media reports saying it may have been started by nearby military exercises. Public ...