YAMAGATA, (Japan): This year’s cherry harvest in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan’s largest producer of the small red fruit, has significantly decreased this season due to extremely high temperatures.

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They promptly unfurled a banner in the building to celebrate “our retaking Japan’s No. 1 spot in ramen consumption.” Ramen is serious business in Yamagata Prefecture. The internal affairs ...

Many persimmons are being dried in the city of Kaminoyama, Yamagata Prefecture, creating a scenery ... continue until around January next year. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken ...

Yamagata, the capital city of Yamagata Prefecture, was the top spender on ramen in 2024 among Japan’s prefectural capitals and designated cities for the third year running, with an average ...

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

Suzaka Mayor Masao Miki apologized on March 18 for the city passing off grapes produced in Yamagata Prefecture as being grown ...

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

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.

Notably, five of the top 10 cities were in the Tohoku region of northeast Japan ... to promote the excellence of Yamagata's ...