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TOTTORI PREFECTURE

Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Food Sustainability in Japan
Feb 15, 2020
Free-range eggs from Tottori help crack regional revitalization
A queue of people snakes alongside a shiny glass cafe, with many resigned to a two-hour wait. Their goal: some simple yet famously fluffy pancakes. This could be a typical scene from the trendy Harajuku neighborhood in Tokyo. Except this cafe is surrounded by hills of luscious green, hidden in the small town of Yazu, deep in Tottori Prefecture. A decade ago, there used to be a grand total of zero visitors, but last year, 350,000 flocked to the area — thanks to one man and his free-range eggs.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Dec 30, 2018
Tottori's wild meat has many benefits for those who are game
As consuming wild meat, including wild boar and deer, gains popularity in Japan, Tottori Prefecture, in the Chugoku region of Honshu, aims to game to the next level.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 19, 2016
'GeGeGe no Kitaro' tourist spot to upgrade night-time illumination of 'yokai'
A popular tourist spot in western Japan based on spirits and monster characters created by the late cartoonist Shigeru Mizuki will undergo its first major renovation to become a nighttime attraction.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2016
Okayama girl, 5, honored for knowledge of 'yokai' monsters
Five-year-old Mana Umemoto has become the youngest person ever to receive the title Doctor of Yokai Monsters.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 11, 2015
Modernity and magical realism in rural Japan
Tokyo may still be thriving, but in Japan's rural hinterlands, the country has already plunged into a state of advanced senescence. At the start of Kazuki Sakuraba's "Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas," the book's narrator surveys her hometown and struggles to reconcile the stories of its prosperous past with its humdrum modern reality: "a black, dried husk of a city, where the fires stopped as the times changed, a dead place covered in red rust, transformed into an enormous ruin."
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jan 17, 2015
Tottori's golden sandbox and fog-shrouded mountains
The region north of the Chugoku mountains in western Honshu is known as San'in — "the shadow of the mountain." In Tottori Prefecture, these craggy mountains give way to stretches of fertile farmland that butt up against the icy Sea of Japan. The erratic weather and severe terrain here conspire to create a landscape in constant flux, but the tangle of shadows reward patient eyes with radiant glimmers of what they hide.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2013
Endangered beetles put on block
Specimens of an endangered species of insect captured in Tottori Prefecture were put up for sale on an Internet auction site, prefectural officials said Thursday.

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