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Japan's coveted cherry blossoms and other ecosystems threatened by alien species

by Daisuke Kikuchi

Spring has come — the season when cherry blossoms bloom nationwide. But ecologists warn that Japan's most popular sites for hanami (cherry blossom-viewing) might disappear in the next couple of decades. This is because red-necked longhorn beetles, a species foreign to the country, are eating the ...

Reference | EXPLAINER Mar 20, 2017

What next for Japan's peacekeepers after withdrawal from South Sudan?

by Ayako Mie

Earlier this month, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe abruptly announced that Japan will end its peacekeeping mission in South Sudan in May and withdraw the Ground Self-Defense Force's engineering troops there. The troops have been deployed to the northeast African country for the last five ...