Cherry blossoms symbolize many things: delicate beauty and transience, new beginnings, friendship of the US and Japan.

The Japanese sakura trees made their way to America's capital with help from a few unlikely adventurers and advocates. People enjoy an afternoon with cherry blossom trees in bloom at the Brooklyn ...

Unknown to many, collections of cherry blossom trees in New York City come from the initial gift from Japan in 1909-1912 to Washington D.C. In fact, the largest collection of cherry blossoms in ...

The trees were gifted by the Sakura Cherry Tree Project last November, a project supported by the Embassy of Japan in the UK as part of a project to donated over 7,500 sakura trees nationwide.