Yamagata Prefecture is located in the southwest corner of Tohoku, facing the Sea of Japan.
The City of Tsuruoka, the Towns of Fujishima, Atsumi, Haguro, Mikawa and Kushibiki and the Village of Asahi are to be merged to form the new City of Tsuruoka (Tsuruoka-Shi).
Yamagata Prefecture is the largest producer of cherries and pears in Japan.
The regions of Japan are not official administrative units, but have been traditionally used as the regional division of Japan in a number of contexts: for example, maps and geography textbooks divide Japan into the eight regions, weather reports usually give the weather by region, and many businesses and institutions...
Higashine (東根市; -shi) is a city located in Yamagata, Japan.
A district (郡; gun) was the administrative unit during the period from 1890 to 1923, which is roughly equivalent to the county of the United States, and was ranked at the level below prefecture and above city, town or village.
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