Japan's cherry blossom database, 1,200 years old, has a new keeper

Unlocked article (found on Reddit): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/climate/japan-cherry-blos...

Data points: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/date-of-the-peak-cherry-t...

> Initially, they didn’t have much luck. No other researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University, where Prof. Aono worked, would be taking over his record-keeping, Hiroko Nishino, a university spokeswoman, wrote in an email.

I’m surprised that there was lackluster response. For this kind of honor, you would think that there would be a flood of responses. I am attributing it to bad marketing.

Japan's cherry blossom truly are wonderful, but I'm not gonna lie, I've seen as beautiful elsewhere, especially in central Europe, Poland especially.

You're supposed to keep an apprentice, man!

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