Yamagata
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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One of the bodies was discovered elsewhere in the Iwate region on Thursday, while another was found in a forest in Yamagata prefecture on Tuesday, police said, without providing the cause of the deaths.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
Eto is also a professor at Yamagata University, and all three scientists are affiliated with Keio University in Japan.
From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2025
Shrines with other sokushinbutsu can be found around Japan, with more than half the known sokushinbutsu around the sacred mountains of Yamagata prefecture.
From National Geographic • Jan. 19, 2024
Day was also set to visit and pray at Yokohama War Cemetary, where many of the buried were POWs, as well as Yamagata, Hiroshima.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2023
Still, a stream of refugees made their way to Yamagata, the prefecture west of Fukushima, where they would sleep on floors in crowded gymnasiums and municipal buildings.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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