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About Miyabe maple

The Miyabe maple (scientific name: Acer miyabei Maximowicz), a deciduous tree with beautiful five-lobed leaves in the maple family (which is now part of the soapberry family), was named after Dr. Kingo Miyabe, a member of the second graduating class of Sapporo Agricultural College (today’s Hokkaido University), as it was found by him in 1884 while he was collecting plants in Shizunai in Hokkaido’s Hidaka region. The Miyabe maple is used in the logo of the Hokkaido University Botanic Garden , where Dr. Miyabe served as the first director. It is listed as a Vulnerable (VU) species in the Red List published by the Ministry of the Environment.
(Reference: https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/fsc/bg/e_history_bg.html.)

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December 3, 2018Our website opened.
April 26, 2018A photo collection entitled THE SHIZUNAI NIJUKKEN ROAD STORY published in English.

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Takashi Tanioka: Author's Profile
Born in Tokyo in 1948 and residing in Shinhidaka Town, Takashi Tanioka is a photographer, a researcher of wild birds and cherry trees, and a freelance writer. He started photography at age 17 and began taking photos of Nijukken Road in 1983, which is also when he began logging natural events there. After retiring from the Shinhidaka Town Office in 2009, he established Motto Dream (an outdoor event planning company) and the Hidaka Research Center of Ornithology. Today, he serves as vice president of the Swan Society of Japan, vice president of the Shizunai Cherry Blossom Association, director of the Hokkaido Nature Conservation Society and a Hokkaido Climate Change Action Officer.

Japan's Most Celebrated Cherry Tree-lined Road THE SHIZUNAI
NIJUKKEN ROAD
STORY

Publication Information
First Japanese edition: April 17, 2012
Revised Japanese edition: June 15, 2012
First English edition: April 26, 2018

Author: : Takashi Tanioka

Translation: : E.C. PRO Inc. and Ashuma Laboratories, Inc.

Publisher: : Ashuma Laboratories, Inc.

Printing and bookbinding: : iWord Co., Ltd

ISBN978-4-9909978-0-9

Now on sale

The sale of the photo collection started at hotels and tourist facilities in Hokkaido’s Niseko area in the autumn of 2018.
136 pages, B5 size in full color

Price: ¥1,800 + Tax

About the photo collection

One of Japan’s Top 100 Cherry Blossom Spots, One of Japan’s 100 Best Roads and a Hokkaido Heritage Site

You cannot talk about cherry blossoms in Japan without knowing the country’s most celebrated cherry tree-lined road.

This collection includes the first aerial photos ever taken along Nijukken Road—a seven-kilometer-long straight road lined with cherry trees. It features 211 photos of splendid seasonal sights, wildlife, thoroughbreds, local history and culture, as well as 11 essays, articles, and lists of local wild birds and wild flowers. The photo collection documents 29 years of virtually all aspects of Nijukken Road from the viewpoint of a Shizunai-based photographer.

The photo collection’s most attractive feature is its impressive aerial photos.
Nijukken Road—a stunning straight road about seven kilometers long and 36 meters wide, a width equal to 20 ken (pronounced “nijukken”) in the old Japanese system of measurement

The sale of the photo collection started at hotels and tourist facilities in Hokkaido’s Niseko area in the autumn of 2018.
Orders can be placed by email (Payment methods: negotiable).

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Corporate Profile

Name: : Ashuma Laboratories, Inc.
Address: : 502 Progress Sakuradai, 3-4-3 Sakuradai, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1132, Japan
Phone: : +81-463-91-1091
Email: : info@ashumalabs.co.jp
Founded: : December 24, 2015
Capital: : 9 million yen
Representative: : Tetsuyoshi Ishii, Chief Executive Officer

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1. Everlasting resource circulation
We are committed to building everlasting relations with customers, society, and nature, just like forests, which represent a sustainable system of symbiosis and resource circulation that has continued from time immemorial.
2. Coexistence and co-prosperity
We aim to help create a society and natural environment of coexistence and co-prosperity based on the sampo yoshi business philosophy of merchants in the Ohmi region—a philosophy that business should benefit the seller, the buyer, and the society.

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Phone: +81-463-91-1091
Email: info@ashumalabs.co.jp

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