Crews began removing eight decades-old cherry trees near Seattle’s Pike Place Market on Tuesday. The city plans to replace the trees on Pike Street between First and Second avenues with new cherry trees after community pushback over their removal. Activists said the trees have historical and cultural relevance, bearing witness to the Japanese Americans who worked at the market before World War II and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during the war. "The entire issue is the recognition of this history and heritage and the fact that the Japanese American community has been here a long time," Kyle Kinoshita of the Seattle Japanese American Citizens League said. Read the full story here: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/pike-place-market-cherry-trees-removed/281-c0dd39e9-b1e3-496f-814c-109872a3af4e