For the first time in nearly 120 years, "hachiku" bamboo is flowering all across Japan. The hachiku bamboo plant expands by sending out underground stems, which can grow at a rate of about 2 ...

Indonesian product designer Singgih Susilo Kartono has launched initiatives to revitalize deserted villages by producing unique products utilizing local natural resources such as bamboo.

KITA-KYUSHU, Fukuoka Prefecture--Spring in Japan is not limited to enjoying sakura--it’s the perfect time to enjoy the taste of the season, “takenoko,” or bamboo shoots. Takenoko are being ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...

Wartime residents of Kyushu in southern Japan got tips on how to kill U.S. paratroopers with bamboo spears courtesy of a publication that left no doubt about the dire situation the nation faced ...

For 2,000 years Japan had never been defeated ... Civilians were recruited to fight alongside the soldiers with sharpened bamboo spears. The government held up as a model to civilians on the ...