The town of Masuda, in the Yokote valley in southeast Akita Prefecture, is located on the confluence of two rivers. A hub for river cargo since before the Edo period (1603–1867), the town continued to ...

YOKOTE, Akita Prefecture--Grossed out but kinda like it? Welcome to the genre of “kimokawaii,” or creepy-cute. Sweets shaped like bee larvae look wiggly and weird. Whoa! Creepy-cute. A chocolate ...

YOKOTE, Akita Prefecture--Stocktaking of books at a municipal library here is now fully automated under a trial experiment that potentially could see humans removed from the process altogether. A ...

Yokote Okuri Bon Matsuri (festival) is said to have begun about 300 years ago to mourn the people who lost their lives to severe famine. The surviving people created a "Yakatabune", a traditional ...

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