the after-work revelries are under way across japan, with the nation noisily celebrating the annual arrival of the cherry blossoms with mobile karaoke machines and 1 of beer. experts warn, however, that the party could be drawing to a close.
随着一年一度樱花季的来临，整个日本都沉浸在樱花节的狂欢气氛里。移动卡拉ok、成箱的啤酒，全体日本民众都在闲暇时欢庆这一盛会。然而，专家警告称，这样的盛会今后可能不会再有。
already threatened by rising temperatures and pollution in cities that have combined to reduce the number of flowers, the iconic cherry blossoms are also falling victim to time.
planted in huge numbers in the decades after air raids
2 large parts of tokyo and other cities, cherry trees usually live about 60 years before they fall
3 to disease or they become too large for their roots.
a survey conducted in 2013 by the tokyo
4 government showed that 44,000 cherry trees dot the city. but an increasing number are
5 and need to be cut down, meaning that entire
6 of trees that add a dash of pink to the unrelenting grey of japan's cities may disappear.
"cherry trees usually live about 60 years so the ones we have in tokyo are getting too big, are contracting diseases and are shedding branches," kiroyuki wada, a spokesman for the japan tree doctors' association, told the telegraph.
"they need to be replaced and the tokyo city government has tried to do that, but they have met resistance from local residents."
the local authority has attempted to carry out
7 programmes in several parts of the city, targeting trees that have raised pavements with their roots or have lost branches, but those plans have on occasions been
8.
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