Yes, part of my point was it's just culture. I grew up in Los Angeles. I lived in Japan for many years and got used to the various celebrations. I then came bac

Yes, part of my point was it's just culture. I grew up in Los Angeles. I lived in Japan for many years and got used to the various celebrations. I then came back to Los Angeles and noticed all the trees blossoming that I and pretty much everyone else had ignored in the past. So re post above, it's not the cherry trees are especially pretty. It's only that some people in Japan started appreciating them and promoting that appreciation until it spread throughout the country. It could just as easily have been any other blossoming tree or any other country. The only difference is culture not trees.