Extreme rainfall and flooding in Yamagata Prefecture have likely caused significant damage, the Japan Meteorological Agency announced on July 25. The agency issued a special warning urging ...

The agriculture ministry on Wednesday began to accept bids in the second round of its auction for government-stockpiled rice.

YAMAGATA--The capital of Yamagata Prefecture has slurped its way to defending its honorable title of having the “No.1 ramen consumers in Japan.” According to a household economy survey ...

Many persimmons are being dried in the city of Kaminoyama, Yamagata Prefecture, creating a scenery like orange curtains. Sixteen to 20 peeled "benigaki" persimmons are tied together with string ...

News; Japan Begins to Take Bids in 2nd Auction of Reserve Rice; Japan Begins to Take Bids in 2nd Auction of Reserve Rice.

Police in Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture, have arrested a 37-year-old unemployed woman on suspicion of trespassing on private property after she broke into a man’s apartment while he was taking a ...

Masao Miki, mayor of Suzuka City in Nagano Prefecture, apologizing for the city passing off grapes produced in Yamagata Prefecture as being grown locally to reward donors to its hometown tax program.

Yamagata Prefecture, some 300 kilometers north of Tokyo, is a mountainous region. Around 70% of its land covered by forests and to this day it boasts a long tradition of using that wood in its ...

Night - Scattered showers with a 66% chance of precipitation. Winds variable. The overnight low will be 35 °F (1.7 °C). Cloudy with a high of 44 °F (6.7 °C) and a 49% chance of precipitation ...

In the upgraded cars, the seats are a deep forest-green reminiscent of the mountains located at the heart of Yamagata Prefecture, Also, in response to recent usage trends, each car now has ...

Cloudy with a high of 36 °F (2.2 °C). Winds from W to WNW at 9 to 14 mph (14.5 to 22.5 kph). Night - Partly cloudy. Winds from W to WSW at 6 to 7 mph (9.7 to 11.3 kph). The overnight low will be ...