Yamagata Prefecture

Crop Circles? Try Rice Paddy Art!

podblack.wordpress.com     Jul 2, 2008          

From Pink Tentacle’s “Rice paddy art in Yamagata”: In the Yamagata prefecture town of Yonezawa, an image of 16th-17th century samurai Naoe Kanetsugu has appeared in a field near the Onogawa hot spring. The samurai, whose image...                

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Junior Lifeguard numbers strong

kauaiworld.com     Jun 26, 2008          

by Dennis Fujimoto - The Garden Island PO‘IPU — Roy Yamagata of the Ocean Safety Bureau could not believe the numbers. “This is more people than I can ever remember,” Yamagata said, in between sessions of the Junior Lifeguard...                

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2,000 passengers trapped in bullet trains, 20,000 households lose power after quake

mainichi.jp     Jun 14, 2008          

About 2,000 passengers were trapped in bullet trains left at a standstill between stations in northern Honshu following a powerful earthquake that hit the region, while over 20,000 households were left without electric power,...                

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Major quake in Tohoku kills six

japantimes.co.jp     Jun 13, 2008   953 related          

A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 rippled through northeastern Japan on Saturday morning, killing at least six people and leaving about 190 injured in Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima, Akita and Yamagata prefectures. At...                

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Cherry crops feared to drop in Yamagata as pollinating bees being lured away by other trees

mainichi.jp     Jun 12, 2008   1 related          

YAMAGATA -- Bees that were supposed to pollinate cherry trees instead flew off to Someiyoshino cherry blossoms this year, meaning farmers in Yamagata Prefecture are likely to suffer a decline in cherry crops, it has emerged.                

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Why you didn't get the job you wanted

ksl.com     Jun 3, 2008          

Paul Nelson reporting Chances are you've applied for a job once which you didn't get. So, what went wrong? A popular Web site has a list of things people shouldn't do when applying for a job. If you ask career consultants in Salt...                

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Aligning LC Peaks by Converting Gradient Retention Times to Retention Index of Peptides in...

biowizard.com     May 24, 2008          

Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Tsuruoka, Yamagata 997-0017, Japan. MOTIVATION: Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) is a powerful tool in proteomics studies, but when peptide retention information is used for identification purposes, it remains...                

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Crime › Man, mother in Yamagata dead after trouble over medical insurance

japantoday.com     Apr 22, 2008   2 related          

An unemployed man and his 87-year-old mother were found dead at their home in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, in what police believe was an apparent murder-suicide,… ... Tuesday 22nd April, 02:50 PM JST YAMAGATA — An unemployed man and his 87-year-old mother were found dead...                

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Man hangs self after apparently murdering ailing mom

mainichi.jp     Apr 21, 2008          

YAMAGATA -- A man hanged himself at his home here after apparently murdering his ailing mother, police said. ... At around 2:40 p.m. on Sunday, Yasuo Nagahashi, 58, an unemployed man from Yamagata, was found hanged in a shed at his home by his younger brother, local...                

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Man killed in Yamagata after falling in front of bullet train

mainichi.jp     Apr 19, 2008          

YAMAGATA -- A man here died after falling from a station platform and being hit by a bullet train, police said. ... Local police are unsure whether the fall was accidental or suicide, and are still trying to confirm his identity. At around 10:10 p.m. on Friday, the young...                

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