Weather conditions mean the trees are looking spectacular two weeks earlier than usual Japanese cherry blossom trees at a Gloucestershire park have flowered two weeks earlier than usual ...

6. 'Sakura' is the Japanese word for 'cherry blossom' and is the country’s most popular girls name. 7. There are over 300 different varieties of cherry tree – also known as cultivars.

Note: Fuyu ni Saku Sakura and hana-ikada each literally mean "cherry blossoms in winter" and "rafts of blossoms." Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun ...

The hub of style and fashion ... doesn’t have the Japanese sakura trees, it has its version of cherry blossom called the trumpet flowers. These too have pink and white blooms which usually ...

Ah, the cherry blossom—Mother Earth’s playful wink to spring, an oh-so-brief dance of pink and white that ensnares ... It ...

Japanese people are seen enjoying the Sakura or cherry blossoms season in Tokyo ... The timing is also three days earlier than the average for Yokohama, but right on the annual average date for Kochi.

It’s cherry ... during cherry blossom season could drop as much as 113 billion yen ($745 billion) into the economy. And, of course, the cherry blossoms are a massive draw for Japanese, too.