Japan will give 250 new cherry trees to Washington, D.C., which is removing over 100 of its trees due to a construction project.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced the donation during a visit to the White House on Wednesday, about a month before 140 cherry trees will be removed to build a more secure sea wall around the Tidal Basin. This new construction is being done in order to protect the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial.
“I am confident that the cherry blossom-like bond of the Japan-U.S. alliance will continue to grow even thicker and stronger, in the Indo-Pacific and in all corners of the world,” Kishida said.
President Joe Biden explained that Japan’s donation of 250 trees is meant to tie into
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