Japan’s signature bonsai trees — precisely pruned and carefully manipulated by long-trained artisans — have become so popular, they are increasingly being targeted for theft and trafficking. Bonsai ...

A 400-year-old bonsai tree worth more than $50,000 vanished from a gardener's collection outside Tokyo, one of several valuable plants stolen last month from a fifth-generation bonsai master. Now the ...

Bonsai trees are a wonder of nature bent by the hand of man. But before your love for these works of living art prompt you to plunk down some yen and take one or three home, take note. This small ...

SAN DIEGO — An iconic Japanese garden in Balboa Park is asking for San Diego’s help in finding an irreplaceable bonsai tree that was stolen on Sunday. The Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park ...

When more than $20,000 worth of bonsai were stolen from Fukujyuen, a shop selling the carefully cultivated mini trees in Japan’s Gunma prefecture, Shuichi Baba felt anger but also deep sadness for the ...

Kawaguchi City, located just north of Tokyo and easily accessible from the city center, is home to a 400-year tradition of ...

Bonsai is an art form that has been practiced for thousands of years. “The unique aspect is that bonsai is alive and constantly changing, not like a sculpture or painting, which remains static,” says ...

TOKYO — For decades, a prized, 400-year-old Japanese bonsai tree has been shaped, watered and cared for with all of the precision needed for a priceless piece of art. In the wrong hands, it could die ...

There’s a lot of talk about Japan’s cultural exports of anime and manga, but perhaps one of the most prevalent and enduring of them has been bonsai trees. The method of shaping vegetative life itself ...

A bonsai thief has stolen seven tiny trees worth at least 13 million yen ($118,000) from a garden space in Saitama prefecture near Tokyo. The loot included a rare 400-year-old shimpaku tree, a star of ...

Pennsylvania’s Longwood Gardens is receiving a transformational gift of 150 masterpieces. But these aren’t your typical works of art—they’re bonsai trees, and they come from Doug Paul’s Kennett ...