- 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 - there are over 300 Asian Studies programs at US universities (Association of Asian Studies)