Record early start again for Tokyo's cherry blossoms

Tokyo (AFP) March 14, 2023

Japan announced the official start of Tokyo's cherry blossom season on Tuesday, 10 days earlier than usual and tied with a record early start seen only twice before. In past years the country's meteorologists have linked the increasingly early blooms to climate change, and temperatures in Tokyo have been unseasonably mild in recent days. Tokyo's official cherry bloom records go back 70 y