Kathy Shaner, the first non-Japanese and first woman certified as a professional bonsai artist and instructor by the Nippon Bonsai Association of Japan, doesn’t have much time to talk. The tiny trees ...

NAGOYA, Japan (KHNL) - Meticulous hard working and precise. Words that describe the Japanese work ethic. And those same characteristics are often applied outside the daily grind with the age old art ...

OAKLAND — There are countless arborists in the Bay Area, but Kathy Shaner towers above her trees. Shaner is a master in bonsai, the 1,500-year-old Japanese art of growing miniature trees in just a ...

For more than 50-years, a tiny movement has grown in the East Bay thanks to Dennis Makishima. He is considered by many, a master of Aesthetic Pruning, and an influential figure in California's bonsai ...

Every tree has a story. For trees in the wild, it's an honest memoir, a narrative of generous summers and lean winters, wind, fire, lightning strikes, beetle infestations. A bonsai's story, though, is ...

The gift of 53 bonsai trees from Japan to the U.S. in 1975, 30 years after WWII. In 1975, only 30 years after the United States and Japan have been at war, Japan gave 53 priceless bonsai trees to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hirakawa Yasuhiro is a master blacksmith for Sasuke in Sakai, Japan, who forges scissors with techniques that were used to make ...