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Have you thought about why so many SATSUKI or Tsutsuji (Rhododendron) are planted here in Tokyo?Everywhere you see, in the park, an entrance area of buildings, and divided areas of motorway? Even I see SATSUKI at recently opened urban development area called Here comes SAKURA - a season for cherry blossoms viewing here in Tokyo.As we expected, blossoms start to bloom early than before (used to be it bloom in the early April) There is a funny episode this year that the MET office predict the date of the blooming with state of art computer, but they announced the wrong date, because they failed to calculate the day with a human error. Surprisingly we heard, they do not observe an actual cherry trees, instead they only watching computers’ screen! We human being as a part of nature, we have to respect nature and at least we can do is to see nature with our own naked eyes, not through an artificial machine!

Every spring, maple tree’s seedling start to grow under the 200 year old maple tree, even grow under gravels. It almost never make to be an adult, but hundreds of seedling come back each year - they never give up! It is a wonder of life and I wanted to say to them - “Ganbatte! keep at it!”

Spring is a season for blooming flowers, but also there is a rejuvenescence of fresh green. During the winter time, moss was hardly on sight, now spreading a fresh green carpet everyday.

It is interesting to see how peasant’s eye grow every day.It wakes up in the morning and sleep in the night. It also grow flowers and leaves each day.

Japanese sweets often correspond with its seasonal theme or traditional features. Here is a sweets represents layers sleeves of Kimono- traditional court dresses.It is for early spring celebration of the Hina dolls’s Festival and it also uses cherry blossom mark as symbol of coming spring.

The Hina dolls of the modern festival are thought to be a combination of the Katashiro Used for exorcism and the paper Hina Dolls Heian period girls played with. It is the custom for parents to present their daugher with the Hina dolls set, usually at birth of on the first birthday, and for the daughter to take these when she marries. In some areas paper or rough clay dolls are still tossed into the river or floated with lights attached, as in the Nagashi Hina Festival.

A festival for girls held on 3rd of March.Tiered platforms for Hina Ningyo - hina dolls, a set of dolls representing emperor, empress, attendants and musicians in an ancient court dress are set up in the home, and the family celebrates with a meal, eating sweets and drinking Ama-sake (made with rice and sugar)

     Here in Japan, we have been celebrating St.Valentines’ Day since the mid 90’s, and a quarter of the annual total of chocolate will be consumed on this day.  Why so much?  Because Japanese chocolate companies reinvented this western custom successfully in order to increase their sales.     Unlike in western countries, the Japanese copied version of Valentine’s Day is only one way - women give “chocolate” to men.There is a chance for men to return the favour to women though, on the so-called “White Day” on the 14th of March (mo