Bonsai: Japan’s living art evolves as it emigrates to rest of Asia

TOKYO — Teppei Kojima was a clothing buyer 10 years ago when he noticed a hot new trend in the West: bonsai. The expressive trees were being used as decorations in the fashionable boutiques he visited on business trips. Store managers would brag about them. “They are cool, aren’t they?” Kojima remembers them saying.