They’re famous for following the sunshine, always moving their flower heads to look at the Sun. In Japan, sunflowers ...

Tomioka town, once famous for its spring flowers, lost its color after the 2011 Fukushima Daichii nuclear accident. Now, one ...

One of Japan's most famous pieces of literature, "The Tale of the Heike", opens with mention of the flowers to symbolize fragility and the transience of life, because each flower that blooms on ...