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Akebono had been battling illness since collapsing in the city of Kitakyushu seven years ago, according to local media.

A group of scientists from the University of Kitakyushu in Japan has come up with an unusual solution to a messy problem.

Little artists can also draw inspiration from the museum shop’s temporary installation and sale of fanciful works by Kite House Magoji, a family business in Kitakyushu, Japan.

Siswanti Zuraida, a civil engineer at the University of Kitakyushu, began the project while lecturing at the Bandung Science Technology Institute near Jakarta.

Point Defiance’s Japanese Garden is home to cherry blossoms gifted to Tacoma in 1959 by the consul general of Japan, the Honorable Kiyokazu Ota, and Tacoma’s sister city Kitakyushu, Japan, according to Metro Parks Tacoma.