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Published: Oct. 6, 2022, 4 p.m.

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Synopsis: Every first Friday of the month, The Straits Times\' foreign editor Bhagyashree Garekar chats with ST\\u2019s correspondents in the Asia-Pacific, the US and Europe. They talk about life as it goes on, amid the screaming headlines and bubbling crises.

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In this episode, she chats with ST\'s Japan correspondent Walter Sim.\\xa0

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Ahead of, ironically, the World Horticultural Exposition in 2027, a row of 280 sakura trees in Yokohama are due to be chopped down for roads to be widened\\xa0\\xa0Across Japan, trees - some of which are more than a century old - will be felled in urban areas and public parks to make way for gleaming sports complexes, glamping sites, shopping malls and office buildings - not to mention the large plots of forests that have been levelled to place solar panels.

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Tree huggers nationwide claim that the authorities are paying lip service to the United Nations\' sustainable development goals.

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Highlights (click/tap above):

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2:05 Growing pushback against plans across Japan to chop trees down

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5:35 How Tokyo\'s Meiji Jingu Gaien area is in itself, a tourist attraction with its 1,000 century-old trees

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7:10 How tree lovers are arguing their case

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9:25 Are Japanese politicians reacting at the national level?

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Read Walter Sim\\u2019s article here: https://str.sg/wHYB

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Produced by: Bhagyashree Garekar (bhagya@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis, Hadyu Rahim & Eden Soh

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Edited by: Hadyu Rahim

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