Yakushima Island, a world heritage site in ... Legacy over a thousand years: Canopy soil of old-growth forest fosters rich and unique invertebrate diversity that is slow to recover from human ...

Yakushima, off Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu, is a magical island of primeval forest, rare micro-climate and pristine nature. It is also the first place in Japan to be recognized as a UNESCO ...

YAKUSHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture—An ancient giant has fallen in the forest believed to have inspired ... tree estimated to be around 3,000 years old. This dates the "Yayoi sugi" cedar back ...

Yakushima’s most iconic feature is undoubtedly its ancient 1,000-year-old “Yakusugi” and 2,000 ... is the laurel forest zone with banyan trees and Japanese red oak. So, a wide climatic ...