Apr 8, 2016
PULLMAN, WASH. – The annual burst of Japanese cherry blossoms is underway at Washington State University. Each year since 2002, the opening of fragrant pinkish-white flowers has heralded the arrival of spring. Who needs April in Paris when we have April in Pullman?
The Yoshino cherry trees planted 14 years ago owe their existence to a donor living on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Koichiro Iwasaki, who earned his master’s degree in economics at WSU in 1983, donated the trees “to symbolize a permanent and true friendship between WSU and Japan,” he said during a phone interview from Kawasaki City, where he is CEO and president of Shigetomi Shoji Co., Ltd.
https://news.wsu.edu/2016/04/07/lifes-bowl-cherry-blossoms-wsu/