Tsukuba, Japan—Yakushima Island, a world heritage site in Japan, is renowned for its rich biodiversity. The huge Japanese cedar (Yaku-sugi) forests, which are over a thousand years old, are a symbolic ...

Cryptomeria japonica, or the Japanese cedar, is highly revered as the national tree of Japan. Locally known as "sugi," it covers over 4.5 million hectares of land, accounting for nearly half of ...

In April, the American Lumber Standard Committee’s Board of Review approved the design values of two-by-four dimension lumber made of sugi (Japanese cedar), officially allowing its use in buildings.

What: This golden Japanese cedar, Cryptomeria japonica “Sekkan-sugi,” was introduced to American horticulture about 1970. It’s a visually dominant tree because of its intense color when growth is new ...

Koido Seizai Co. has been engaged in the lumber business in Gunma Prefecture since 1954 and has been shipping sugi (Japanese cedar) lumber to the United States since 2018. Yoshiharu Koido, the ...