I traveled with my wife across the USA. We arrived in Los Angeles and a few hours later got to hold our newest granddaughter. It was decided a day trip to the magnificent Huntington Botanical Gardens ...

In downtown Portland, a Suzhou-style garden features hundreds of blooms and plants native to China, as well as traditional ...

Following the closure of gastronomic icons such as Le Gavroche, we take a look at other incredible restaurants that no longer ...

As the sounds of taiko and fue — traditional Japanese drums and flute — began to fill the Miller Living Room gathering space at the Portland Japanese Garden on Sunday, a crowd squeezed in ...

Portland has ranked among the top five places for business by Forbes for the past five years. Credit its strong growth prospects and a large share of highly-educated millenials. The city has been ...

Hannah Wallace If you need an escape from urban landscapes, seek out Zen-like tranquility at the Japanese Garden within Washington Park. The 12-acre Portland Japanese Garden is made up of eight ...

(KOIN) – Oregon State Representative Mari Watanabe was sworn into office at Portland’s Japanese Garden on Sunday – making history as the state’s first Japanese American woman to join the ...

Washington Park is home to such notable landscaping feats as the Portland Japanese Garden and the International Rose Test Garden, as well as the World Forestry Center, Hoyt Arboretum and several ...

Mari Watanabe became the newest member of the Oregon Legislature on Jan. 19—and also the state’s first-ever Japanese American lawmaker. At a joint meeting of the Multnomah and Washington ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The “fast-casual” Japanese chain restaurant Pepper Lunch, which prides itself on feeding customers “in 20 minutes for under $20,” is opening two new locations in ...

Portland’s two days of snow may be slowly melting away, but fans of the Pacific Northwest can’t stop dreaming of cherry ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The Portland Trail Blazers had some special guests in the stands for their back-to-back games this weekend. Juri and Kyosuke Ushida, Blazers fans from Japan, were treated ...