YASUGI, Shimane Prefecture--The accolades continue growing for the sprawling gardens ... were rated as Japan's best for the 21st consecutive year by the U.S.-based Journal of Japanese Gardening ...

Kurisu went back to Japan to study with master Kenzo Ogata. He returned to the US and started his landscaping career at the Portland Japanese Garden in 1968. Over the past 50 years, he has ...

He transformed the space behind 38 College Street into a karesansui-style Japanese garden for his honors project for the Asian Studies Program. The karesansui style emerged in fifteenth-century Japan.

is the oldest continuously maintained public Japanese garden outside of Japan. The 5-acre site features classic elements of a Japanese garden, including an arched drum bridge, pagodas, stone ...

There are about 500 Japanese gardens around the world, such as this one at the World War Two-era Manzanar internment camp for Japanese-Americans in California Japan is to send gardening experts ...