We are pleased to see that Portland Japanese Garden’s training center director Kristen Faurest has featured Ueyakato Landscape President Tomoki Kato in an article written for the website "Land8: Landscape Architect Network". Her article “Fostering the Future” cogently explains why professional gardeners do not simply maintain gardens in their current condition but instead foster their inner potential to the greatest degree possible, a long-held principle of President Kato's first introduced outside Japan in his keynote speech to the 2014 North American Japanese Garden Association Conference in Chicago.