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YAMAGATA

BASKETBALL
Apr 21, 2015
Former Olympic basketball player Kaiho dies at 73
Nobuo Kaiho, a guard on Japan's men's basketball team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, has died at age 73.
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 14, 2015
Abe strikes late as Reds top Montedio
Captain Yuki Abe slammed home an 83rd-minute piledriver to give Urawa Reds maximum points from their opening two games of the J. League season with a 1-0 win over Montedio Yamagata on Saturday.
SOCCER / J. League / 2015 J. LEAGUE PREVIEW
Mar 5, 2015
Vissel eyeing J. League upset
The following is the first of a two-part preview for the upcoming J. League season. Team-by-team previews of the nine lowest-ranking teams competing in the first division are listed.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 3, 2015
Goal hero Yamagishi determined to keep Montedio up
Norihiro Yamagishi is happy to keep talking about the goal he scored to put Montedio Yamagata into last season's J. League promotion playoff final, but the goalkeeper would rather discuss what his team can achieve in its return to the first division.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 15, 2015
Documentary festival delivers an encore to Tokyo audiences
Last November, Japan Times film critic Kaori Shoji predicted that the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival's (YIDFF) program of screenings would slant toward sociopolitical analysis, focusing on substance over style. Audiences must have welcomed this weighty exposition of the documentary...
SOCCER / J. League
Dec 13, 2014
Gamba claim treble
Gamba Osaka completed a remarkable trophy treble by beating Montedio Yamagata 3-1 to lift the Emperor's Cup on Saturday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 26, 2014
Documentaries at the margins of modern life
There is no film festival in Japan quite like the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF).
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 13, 2014
Film fest fans can get a fix at any number of events this month
The Tokyo International Film Festival may be finished, but movie buffs still have a lot of choices for festivals this month.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Nov 8, 2014
Yamadera: 1,000-step staircase to paradise
We're only a few minutes into our climb up one of Yamagata Prefecture's holy mountains, Mount Hojusan, and already our pace has slowed considerably. Our destination is Risshakuji Temple, more colloquially known as Yamadera (literally: "mountain temple"), a far-north outpost of Tendai Buddhism since 860....
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Aug 23, 2014
Cheap train to the north with Basho
On July 19, the Yamagata Shinkansen debuted a luxury ashiya (foot bath) service. A ticket from Tokyo to Yamagata City, in Tohoku Prefecture, costs around ¥11,000, but 15 minutes in the foot bath car is extra. If Matsuo Basho, Japan's most well-known poet, were to retrace his 156-day-long trek through...
BASKETBALL
May 16, 2014
Kanazawa to coach NBDL's Yamagata team
The well-traveled Atsushi Kanazawa will lead the Passlab Yamagata Wyverns in the NBDL, the JBL2's successor, next season, it was announced on Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 16, 2014
Planned demolition bonds mark end of era
After educating children since 1956, Kiyokawa Elementary School stands abandoned, its walls and roof crumbling because there are no longer enough pupils to fill it and the town can't afford to demolish the building.

Longform

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