The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake’s preliminary magnitude at 6.8. The Japan Meteorological Agency said it had an intensity of lower 5 on the Japanese scale of 0 to 7. The quake began at ...

Many different kinds of trees can be sculpted with Bonsai techniques, including Japanese black pine, Chinese elm, Japanese maples and even redwoods. “Placing a suiseki viewing stone near a ...

This bonsai was started more than 70 years ago, when Japanese American bonsai artist John Naka cut the top off a mature juniper tree and planted it in a pot. Over the next two decades, he ...