Amid these trends, the Kaminoyama City Office in Yamagata Prefecture is at the cutting edge among municipalities throughout the country in terms of the introduction of electronic administration in financial affairs.
Kaminoyama City's new system has attracted attention from people involved in municipal government across the country, and the office has already welcomed some 2,000 or more visitors who have come to see it in operation.
At the time of the Meiji Revolution, Kaminoyama was a castle city on a scale of 30,000 koku (a unit of rice measurement) controlled by the Matsudaira clan.
About defective railroad ties found between the Yamagata station and the Shinjo station of the Yamagata Sinkansen (JR Ou Line), the Japan Railway EAST announced as an interim report that they inspected 56,093 railroad ties still now and founded 4,441 railroad ties (about 8% of them) cracked.
Yamagata local goverment carried out a questionnaire about merger of towns and villages for members of a council of the 44 city, towns and villages in Yamagata prefecture.
The Tendo branch of the Yamagata cook society, they visited the the old-age home for special care "Meikouen" at Yanome area in Tendo city in order to have you taste autumn taste "Imoni" of Yamagata.