Not many people reading article eh?
It’s not trees in Japanese urban cities (they keep getting cut yikes) but ones planted using Japanese botanist method. It plants native and climate appropriate species to grow climax community on the go in packed manner. In theory, once established ‘the forests’ have stable ecosystem and don’t need external intervention. The theory now considered working, though the timespan to see if it truly works is centuries, and has been adopted over south Asia, east Asia and Europe.
Goddamn it the Japanese are becoming wood elves.
This is honestly awesome
Lived in Japan for more than 2 decades. Never saw one.
Japanese cities have a surprising lack of green tbh.
It’s not shitty, out of control weeds, babe. It’s a Japanese Micro Forest. Get with it.
