Japan Gave 30 Million People Allergies With Trees

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Japan accidentally gave 30 million people an incurable allergy [music] with trees. After World War II, Japan lost 70% of its [music] forests. The government planted billions of Japanese cedar trees, [music] but nobody harvested them. They all matured at once. Mature cedar [music] releases five times more pollen than young cedar. By the 1980s, hay fever exploded across Japan. Comment if you have allergies.

[00:00:28]Today, one in three Japanese [music] citizens suffers from cedar allergies.

[00:00:32]Cutting them down would cost decades and cause massive landslides. So, the cure is worse than the disease. Japan is now geneediting lowpollen cedars, but the original strain keeps spreading. like this. If [music] trees have personally wronged you,