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Walking, all serious walkers know, is more than mere locomotion. Health to some, satori to others, it seems to prove all the hoary old adages about happiness being within easy reach if only we knew it. It is sublime in its simplicity. It needs no money, no equipment, no planning,… ....
MINAKAMI, Gunma A group of local children have captured and are taking care of a rare blue Japanese tree frog in this east Japan town, hoping it wo ....
Feb. 5 To his credit, Shimizu creates a nightmarish forest world that reminds us why, in certain lights and moods, tree branches can look like clawing hands and the trees themselves become ominous beings that threaten and loom. It helps that his main setting is Aokigahara, the so-called jukai (sea of trees) at the foot of Mount Fuji that has become notorious as a magnet for the suicidal. It has also inspired several films, including the widely panned 2015 Gus Van Sant drama, “The Sea of Trees.” With its lumpy, moss-covered volcanic surfaces and dense growth of spindly, twisted trees, Aokigahara is forbidding and creepy, though the urban legends that have grown up around it, which the film regards as sober fact, are pure fiction (at least one hopes). ....