From Singapore's Straits Times, December 18:
Japan’s Meteorological Corporation (JMC) on Dec 18 released its first sakura – or cherry blossoms –forecast for 2026, with the famous flowers expected to bloom in the capital around mid-March.
According to the forecast, the earliest flowering will be in the capital Tokyo and Nagoya, in Aichi Prefecture, on March 19. Full bloom is expected a week later in Tokyo on March 26, and on March 28 in Nagoya....
....MUCH MORE, they follow the blooms right up the islands to Sapporo .
