Russia accounts for more than 80 percent of Japan’s imports of wood veneer sheets, which are used to make plywood boards. Nearly 20 percent of Japan’s imports of rafters, which are used to ...

The lumber used totaled 1,990 cubic meters, and 60 to 70 percent of the material was produced in Japan. Pure-wood buildings such as Port Plus, whose pillars, beams and other components are all ...

MIYAZAKI, Japan-- Japan's Shingo Katayama stole the first round limelight from defending champion Tiger Woods by shooting a red-hot five-under 65 in the Dunlop Phoenix tournament in Miyazaki.

For over 40 years Tsukamoto Yoshifusa has used scrap wood from old Japanese houses to make violins. Carefully carving the front and back plates using self-taught techniques, each one takes nearly ...

But as a fence builder, [Lucas] over at Cranktown City sure has, with high-end clients requesting the traditional Japanese wood-finishing method, which requires the outer surface of the wood to be ...

Around 70% of its land covered by forests and to this day it boasts a long tradition of using that wood in its buildings. On this episode of Journeys in Japan, American architect James Lambiasi ...

Also read: Japan successfully launches next-generation H3 rocket after failure last year The team has been working on the project since 2020, experimenting and evaluating different types of wood ...

For over seventy years, Japan’s constitution has remained untouched, a symbol of a reformed nation and a democratic society. Introduced under U.S.-led occupation in the wake of World War II ...

[Process X] has now taken us behind the scenes of a Japanese factory that turns out ... We get to see the raw wood roughed into shape and put through the thicknesser, along with the more ...

Human Ecology, Vol. 52, Issue. 1, p. 185. In this book, Lee A. Newsom offers an overview of wood in archaeology --how and where it is preserved and analyzed, its relevance to paleoecological and ...

No? What about ‘Fluff’? If the first visual in your mind is the caddie with the famed walrus mustache holding out his cigarette to check the wind for Tiger Woods, you are right as rain.

The convenience store, or konbini, is an institution of modern Japanese life. Open at all hours, it offers customers tasty food and household essentials, as well as the ability to pay bills and ...