High radiation levels of more than 250,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium have been detected in male flowers of Japanese cedar trees in the restricted zone around the damaged Fukushima ...

Researchers pinpointed the gene that deprives Japanese cedar trees of their ability to produce pollen, carving out the future where no one may suffer the agony brought about by hay fever. Scientist ...

Cedar fever is an allergic reaction caused by mountain cedar (juniper trees), often overlapping symptoms with an intense cold ...

It’s back... mountain cedar has returned to the pollen count for the first time this season, thanks to breezy north winds. From now through Valentine’s Day, thousands of us who are allergic to cedar ...

Every year, pollen counts in Japan are getting worse. In fact, pollen levels in Tokyo were literally off the charts just a few weeks ago. As a result, for four months out of the year, an estimated 15 ...

The government on Tuesday unveiled a draft proposal for lessening the effects of Japan’s hay fever season, which include reducing cedar forests by 20% over 10 years with the goal of lowering the ...

Pollen-releasing male flowers of a Japanese cedar are seen in this file photo taken in the city of Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on Feb. 16, 2019. (Mainichi) TOKYO -- Hay fever season is at its height ...

Hay fever sufferers beware. Forecasters are predicting that cedar and cypress pollen is arriving earlier and in larger quantities than in recent years throughout most parts of the nation. The Japan ...

Cedar fever season is coming. The annual allergy affliction that happens when the male mountain ashe juniper trees mistakenly labeled as cedar get frisky looking for the female mountain ashe junipers ...

TOKYO -- Hay fever season for people allergic to pollen from Japanese cedar trees has begun in the capital, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced Feb. 17. According to the statement, pollen from ...

According to figures given to me by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, about 16 percent of people living in Japan suffer an allergic reaction to pollen from Japanese cedars (Cryptomeria japonica). In ...

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