Pioneering ecologist Minakata Kumagusu explored the forests of Kumano ... a distinguished Japanese scholar in the early 20th century. Features of both plants and animals are present in slime ...

In just about every pamphlet I obtained regarding Shirakami-Sanchi, I kept reading about Philipp Franz von Siebold’s beech, a native Japanese tree. Siebold? I muttered to myself, “Who is this ...