autumn - The Japan Times

Voices | OVERHEARD Oct 20, 2018

"The fall leaves look to be lacking a little color this year."

Voices | OVERHEARD Oct 6, 2018

"Whenever I walk through a supermarket at this time of year, I really have to fight the urge to pluck a grape off the bunches on display and pop it in my mouth."

National Jun 28, 2017

Hokkaido salmon catch seen dropping due to colder waters: research institute

by Eric Johnston

A Hokkaido research institute predicts about a 4 percent drop in the catch of salmon in prefectural waters this autumn due to colder waters that make it harder for fry to survive. Still, the total estimated catch represents less than half of the over 60 ...

National Dec 6, 2015

Tens of thousands flock to the Imperial Palace for annual viewing of autumn foliage

An estimated 28,000 people thronged the Imperial Palace's Inui Road for the second annual viewing of the autumn leaves on Saturday, the first day of the event, which will remain open to public until Wednesday. By 10 a.m., some 2,500 people had formed a line, ...

Voices | OVERHEARD Nov 23, 2013

Local government in action

Young man: Why are you cutting down the maple trees in various places around the park? Elderly man: It's easier to cut them down now than wait and sweep up the leaves after they fall next week. — Yodagawa Kasen Park, Osaka. Overheard by The Japan ...

Reader Mail Aug 14, 2011

Power-saving mindset has limits

Regarding the Aug. 10 article "Nuclear power debate heating up": I strongly disagree with the notion that just because we seem to be doing fine amid the current electricity deficit, Japan will be just fine without nuclear power plants in the future. One reason we ...