Genji and sweet sedge duet.

The first office was opened in a backroom, storefront on Cypress and West Broadway SE corner in Kitsilano, Vancouver.

And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.

But as the cedar and cypress trees (and their pollen) are unlikely to be going anywhere in the near future, Japan can expect another round of hay fever misery next year.

SPARC International was intended to open the SPARC architecture to make a larger ecosystem for the design, which has been licensed to several manufacturers, including Texas Instruments, Atmel, Cypress Semiconductor, and Fujitsu.

It isn't flowers that cause hay fever in Japan. The culprit is pollen from trees, in particular the Japanese cedar or sugi (杉, Cryptomeria japonica) and Japanese cypress or hinoki (檜, Chamaecyparis obtusa).

He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.

He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.

The rise of hay fever is closely linked to Japan s forestation policy after World War II. As the nation rebuilt itself, demand for timber surged, and cedar and cypress were the trees of choice for the forestry industry.

For western and eastern Japan (including Tokyo), hay fever season starts between late January and mid February, as the weather begins to warm up. Cedar pollen production peaks in late March to early April and then steadily declines, while cypress pollination lags behind by about a month.