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Newcomer wins Yamagata gubernatorial election

YAMAGATA, Japan - Opposition-backed newcomer Mieko Yoshimura (R) celebrates her victory in the Yamagata Prefecture gubernatorial election Jan. 25. Yoshimura defeated incumbent Gov. Hiroshi Saito in an effective face-off between Japan's ruling and opposition parties.

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Newcomer wins Yamagata gubernatorial election

YAMAGATA, Japan - Opposition-backed newcomer Mieko Yoshimura, who won the Jan. 25 gubernatorial election in Yamagata Prefecture, waves on a street in Yamagata Jan. 26. Yoshimura defeated incumbent Gov. Hiroshi Saito in an effective face-off between Japan's ruling and opposition parties.

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Japan PM Kishida

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida eats a cherry at his office in Tokyo on June 16, 2022, as Yamagata Gov. Mieko Yoshimura presents cherries grown in the northeastern Japan prefecture, the country's largest producer of the fruit.

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Japan PM Kishida

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida eats a cherry at his office in Tokyo on June 16, 2022, as Yamagata Gov. Mieko Yoshimura presents cherries grown in the northeastern Japan prefecture, the country's largest producer of the fruit.

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Newcomer wins Yamagata gubernatorial election

YAMAGATA, Japan - Opposition-backed newcomer Mieko Yoshimura (R) celebrates her victory in the Yamagata Prefecture gubernatorial election Jan. 25. Yoshimura defeated incumbent Gov. Hiroshi Saito in an effective face-off between Japan's ruling and opposition parties. (Kyodo)

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Newcomer wins Yamagata gubernatorial election

YAMAGATA, Japan - Opposition-backed newcomer Mieko Yoshimura, who won the Jan. 25 gubernatorial election in Yamagata Prefecture, waves on a street in Yamagata Jan. 26. Yoshimura defeated incumbent Gov. Hiroshi Saito in an effective face-off between Japan's ruling and opposition parties. (Kyodo)

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Food, culture from Japan's Yamagata introduced at Expo Milano

Yamagata Gov. Mieko Yoshimura (L) and Masayuki Okuda, a Italian restaurant owner and chef in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, demonstrate how to make "imoni" taro stew at the Japan Pavilion of Expo Milano in Milan, Italy, on Oct. 9, 2015, during an event to promote fresh produce and local traditions from the northeastern Japanese prefecture. Imoni is a thick soup traditionally eaten in autumn in the Tohoku region and which Yamagata is particularly famous for. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Major quake in Japan

Mieko Yoshimura (L), governor of Japan's Yamagata Prefecture, visits the city of Tsuruoka on June 21, 2019, to see the extent of damage from a strong earthquake that struck three days earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby World Cup in Japan

Samoa captain Jack Lam receives a "shogi" board game piece from Mieko Yoshimura, governor of Yamagata, their training camp host, at a welcome ceremony on Sept. 16, 2019, in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, ahead of the upcoming Rugby World Cup in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Major quake in Japan

Mieko Yoshimura (R), governor of Japan's Yamagata Prefecture, visits the city of Tsuruoka on June 21, 2019, to see the extent of damage from a strong earthquake that struck three days earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Major quake in Japan

Mieko Yoshimura (R), governor of Japan's Yamagata Prefecture, visits the city of Tsuruoka on June 21, 2019, to see the extent of damage from a strong earthquake that struck three days earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo urged to tell world of Japan's recovery from 2011 disaster

Representatives from the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku, including Yamagata Gov. Mieko Yoshimura (3rd from L), Akita Gov. Norihisa Satake (2nd from R) and Iwate Gov. Takuya Tasso (3rd from R), hand a written request to Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike (C) in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2016, urging Tokyo to publicize the region's recovery efforts since the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster prior to the 2020 Olympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo