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 ...

In the Tohoku region, Miyagi Prefecture ranked ninth overall. Justin, 35, a Taiwanese who works for a Japanese company and lives in Tokyo, spent four nights in Yamagata Prefecture with his family.

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.

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

Japan is home to 27,000 hot springs sources, but overtourism has reduced some of the country’s onsen water supply to a record ...

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

A beautiful oil on canvas portrait of a Japanese girl by David Burliuk (Ukrainian/American, 1882-1967) – part of a fresh-to-market, never before offered collection of works by Burliuk – sold for ...

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Don’t worry: It’s general enough to apply to the rest of Japan. But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan.

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