Sawara Station is a quaint JR East station serving the JR Narita and Kashiwa lines in Katori, Chiba, designed to reflect the area’s historic merchant-town charm ...

The Sawara Grand Festival is held twice a year – in July and October – in the picturesque canal city of Sawara in northern Chiba. Regarded as one of the three l.

As we ease into winter, our choices of what we'll add to our gardens shifts more to shrubs and trees, especially those that are evergreen. Conifers are near the top of many a gardener's list, but ...

News; Features; Slow-growing evergreen holds its own against elements Fri., April 11, 2008 The golden foliage of dwarf gold thread cypress can create a bright focal point in any landscape. Special ...

This time we venture out to Sawara in Chiba Prefecture. It's a 300-year-old town where merchant families prospered thanks to the Tone River. We see how the community is upholding its traditions.

Seattle Housing Authority announced a ceremonial ribbon snip this Friday for its Sawara, the newest apartment building to open at Yesler Terrace. The seven-story, 114-unit project at 740 Yesler ...

Restoration workers have comprehensively renewed the roof with shingles made of waterproof Sawara cypress wood and also restored the two upper floors, as well as its iconic roof ornament, a golden ...

Sawara’s Yasaka Shrine, just a few blocks from the river, is host to a Gion Matsuri every July that features a parade of four meter-tall dashi floats similar to those used in Kyoto’s Gion Matsuri.

Sawara Taisai consists of summer and autumn festivals that look back 300 years, to a time when Sawara, in Chiba Prefecture, was a vibrant cultural center. Large floats, featuring motifs such as ...

ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: Social activism saved an eight-year-old girl in Mardan district from being given in marriage under the custom of Sawara to pay for the murder committed by her uncle. Samar ...