• New York Times has labeled the author "the undisputed American master of Japanese garden scholars"
• There are more than 300 public Japanese gardens in North America.
• There are close to 30 Asian Art Museums in USA.
• Portland Japanese Garden had 500,000 visitors in 2019
• The leading professional organization is North American Japanese Garden Association with special relationships with the following important US Japanese gardens:
• Anderson Japanese Gardens, Rockford, IL
• The Japanese Hill and Pond Garden, Brooklyn
• Botanic Garden, NY
• Birmingham Botanical Gardens, AL
• Sansho-en, Chicago Botanic Garden, IL
• Shofu-en, Denver Botanic Garden, CO
• Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden, CSULB, Long Beach CA 7.
• Fort Worth Botanic Garden, TX
• Hakone Gardens, Saratoga, CA
• Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix, AZ
• Seiwa-en, Missouri Botanical Garden, MO
• The Japanese Garden of the Montreal Botanical Garden, Quebec, Canada 12.
• Portland Japanese Garden, OR
• Shofuso Japanese House and Garden, Philadelphia, PA
• Nitobe Memorial Garden, UBC
• Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research, Vancouver, Canada
