Even in Kyoto

Thanks for asking the search engines for me! Kinda interesting to know it's hard to find information.

Bark harvesting is an unusual way of getting useful stuff from trees, or plants in general. Usually, we want the seeds, fruits, or whole plants (or big parts of them, from spinach leaves to lumber). Pulling off bark is pretty rare: cinnamon, cork, and a few other oddments are all that's commonly debarked.

So, there's a couple of papers on those trees. But redceder in particular? There's so few uses for the bark that there's little more information than "the natives do this" or "we see plenty of trees with strips of bark removed/slabs removed for planks in these sorts of environments" ("culturally modified" seems to be the accepted jargon), but nothing on how this affects their growth.