Instead, he discovered cicada eggs among the brooms imported from China, in line with his suspicion on how the alien species had entered Japan. Scientists primarily in Saitama Prefecture ...

The Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) famously described the sound of cicadas as “iwa ni shimiiru” (literally, “seeping into the crags”). But there is nothing sensitive or ...

Jan Snela’s memories of his trip to Japan take him back to the ambient noise in Tokyo…. and the shrill cries of Japanese cicadas, as captured in a Bashō haiku. Tokyo is overwhelming, but he comes ...