{"id":1871,"date":"2026-10-09T11:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natureworld.com.pl\/decline-of-house-gardens-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:01:14","slug":"decline-of-house-gardens-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natureworld.com.pl\/en\/decline-of-house-gardens-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Decline of House Gardens in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sean Michael Wilson<\/h2><\/a><\/div>
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\"\"is a comic book writer from Scotland, living in Japan. He researches issues of sustainability in Japan, campaigning for the re-greening of Japanese cities. He has had more than 40 books published with a variety of US, UK and Japanese publishers, including: a comic book version of A Christmas Carol (‘Best of 2008\u2019, Sunday Times), AX:alternative manga (‘Best ten books of 2010\u2019, Publishers Weekly), Parecomic (with an introduction by Noam Chomsky) and his book \u2019The Many Not the Few\u2019 was launched at a special event in the House of Commons parliament building. In 2016 his book The Faceless Ghost was nominated for the prestigious Eisner Book Awards, and received a medal in the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards. In 2017 his book Secrets of the Ninja won an International Manga Award from the Japanese government – he is the first British person to receive this award. In 2020 he received the Scottish Samurai Award from an association celebrating links between Japan and Scotland. In 2021 his book ‘The Minamata Story’ won a silver medal in the Freeman Book Awards of Columbia University. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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There is a common image that Japanese people love nature. In some ways that is clearly true, thankfully. However, in various important respects what happens in practice seems to go very much against that. In a world increasingly focused on sustainability and protection of the environment there is one habit in Japan which is almost totally unknown in the rest of the world, but a major problem. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m referring to the habit of cutting down all or 90% of the trees, bushes and plants in an garden when knocking down the old house there. And replanting either no greenery at all, or only a tiny amount, after erecting a new house there. <\/p>\n\n\t\t