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Ski jumping: World Cup in Yamagata

Nozomi Maruyama of Japan celebrates after winning the World Cup women's ski jumping gold at AlionTek Zao Schanze in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 20, 2026, her sixth win of the season.

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Ski jumping: World Cup in Yamagata

Nozomi Maruyama of Japan competes en route to winning the World Cup women's ski jumping gold at AlionTek Zao Schanze in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 20, 2026, her sixth win of the season.

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Ski jumping: World Cup in Yamagata

Nozomi Maruyama of Japan competes en route to winning the World Cup women's ski jumping gold at AlionTek Zao Schanze in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 20, 2026, her sixth win of the season.

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Ski jumping: World Cup in Yamagata

Nozomi Maruyama of Japan competes en route to winning the World Cup women's ski jumping gold at AlionTek Zao Schanze in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 20, 2026, her sixth win of the season.

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Yamagata int'l film festival

Director Ben Russell speaks on stage after his "Direct Action," a film about French environmental activists, won the grand prize in the international competition division of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 15, 2025.

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Ski jumping: World Cup in Zao

Austria's Jacqueline Seifriedsberger (C) poses for a photo after winning a women's normal hill event at the Ski Jumping World Cup at Aliontek Zao Schanze in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 26, 2025, alongside silver medalist Eirin Maria Kvandal (L) of Norway and bronze medalist Nika Prevc of Slovenia.

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Ski jumping: World Cup

Slovenia's Nika Prevc (C) poses for a photo after winning a women's normal hill event at the Ski Jumping World Cup at Aliontek Zao Schanze in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 24, 2025, alongside silver medalist Thea Minyan Bjoerseth (L) of Norway and bronze medalist Eva Pinkelnig of Austria.

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Ski jumping: World Cup in Zao

Germany's Selina Freitag (L) and Agnes Reisch pose for a photo after winning the women's super team normal hill event at the Ski Jumping World Cup at Aliontek Zao Schanze in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 25, 2025.

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Ski jumping: World Cup in Yamagata

Nika Prevc (C) of Slovenia celebrates after winning gold at a women's ski jumping World Cup event in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 19, 2024, alongside Japan's Yuki Ito (L) and Canada's Alexandria Loutitt, who finished second and third, respectively.

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Ski jumping: World Cup in Yamagata

Japan's Yuki Ito waves after winning silver at a women's ski jumping World Cup event in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 19, 2024.

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Ski jumping: World Cup in Yamagata

Japan's Yuki Ito soars on her first jump en route to winning silver at a women's ski jumping World Cup event in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 19, 2024.

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Ski jumping: World Cup in Yamagata

Japan's Yuki Ito smiles after winning silver at a women's ski jumping World Cup event in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 19, 2024.

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Ski jumping: World Cup in Yamagata

Japan's Yuki Ito soars on her first jump en route to winning silver at a women's ski jumping World Cup event in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 19, 2024.

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Festival in northeastern Japan

Women dance during the traditional Yamagata Hanagasa Festival on Aug. 5, 2023, in Yamagata, northeastern Japan.

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Festival in northeastern Japan

Women dance during the traditional Yamagata Hanagasa Festival on Aug. 5, 2023, in Yamagata, northeastern Japan.

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Festival in northeastern Japan

Women dance during the traditional Yamagata Hanagasa Festival on Aug. 5, 2023, in Yamagata, northeastern Japan.

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Ski jumper Takanashi takes part in cleaning event

Japanese ski jumper Sara Takanashi (front, L) takes part in a cleaning event on a mountain road near a ski jumping hill in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on June 24, 2023.

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Ski Jumping: World Cup team event

Austria's Eva Pinkelnig competes in the inaugural "Super Team" duo competition at the World Cup women's ski jumping in Yamagata, Japan, on Jan. 14, 2023.

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Ski Jumping: World Cup team event

Austria's Chiara Kreuzer (L) and Eva Pinkelnig celebrate after winning the inaugural "Super Team" duo competition at the World Cup women's ski jumping in Yamagata, Japan, on Jan. 14, 2023.

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Letter from Naoe Kanetsugu to Uesugi clan vassals

YAMAGATA, Japan - Yamagata University displays on Feb. 4, 2014 in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, a letter written by feudal lord Naoe Kanetsugu (1560-1619) addressed to vassals of the Uesugi clan, praising them for putting up a good fight against the forces of rival lord Date Masamune.

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Tohoku mayors announce plans for joint 'Rokkon' festival

YAMAGATA, Japan - The mayors of six prefectural capitals in the Tohoku region, northern Japan, gather in the city of Yamagata on Jan. 30, 2014, to announce plans for this year's Tohoku Rokkon (six-soul) Festival. Bringing six major local gala events, the festival started for the repose of victims' soul and promotion of reconstruction work following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.

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Ice deposits at Japanese ski resort

YAMAGATA, Japan, Dec. 22 Kyodo - A skier passes gigantic ice deposits on trees at a ski resort in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, in this file photo taken in February 2017.

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"Ice monsters" in Yamagata ski resort

YAMAGATA, Japan, Feb. 1 Kyodo - A skier slides between "ice monsters," or deposits of ice and snow on pine trees at Zao hot spring and ski resort in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 1, 2017.

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Japan's 1st-ever in-train wrestling

YAMAGATA, Japan, July 4 Kyodo - The first-ever in-train wrestling match is held in Yamagata Prefecture, northern Japan, on July 4, 2015. Around 50 fans were aboard to see famous masked wrestler the Great Sasuke and nine others grappling for about 40 minutes.

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Taro soup in giant pot served at northern Japan festa

YAMAGATA, Japan - Members of staff at an annual event to make taro and meat soup in a gigantic pot, 6 meters across, stir the soup with loading shovels in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 14, 2014. Approximately 30,000 bowls were served.

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Taro soup in giant pot served at northern Japan festa

YAMAGATA, Japan - Members of staff at an annual event to make taro and meat soup in a gigantic pot, 6 meters across, stir the soup with loading shovels in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 14, 2014. Approximately 30,000 bowls were served.

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Univ. professor devises IC thinner than plastic wrapper

YAMAGATA, Japan - Professor Shizuo Tokito of Yamagata University holds an electronic circuit he developed, which is one-tenth the thickness of plastic food wrappers, in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, as seen in this file photo taken on July 1, 2014.

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Poster for Yamagata int'l film festival 2015 unveiled

YAMAGATA, Japan - Kiho Tsuruoka of Tohoku University of Art and Design holds a publicity poster she designed for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2015 in Yamagata, northwestern Japan, on Aug. 18, 2014. The festival will be held on Oct. 8-15 next year.

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College students renovate vacant houses, stores

YAMAGATA, Japan - Two residents of a share house, which was renovated and converted from an abandoned inn by local college students, relax at the house in Yamagata City in June 2014. Above them is an old signboard used at the inn.

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'Akita Kanto Festival' held in Yamagata

YAMAGATA, Japan - The Akita Kanto Festival of Akita Prefecture is held on May 24, 2014 in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture. The festival is among six festivals typical of the Tohoku region, dubbed "the Tohoku Rokkonsai (six soul festival)" intended chiefly for the repose of souls of people who perished in the 2011 earthquake in northeastern Japan.

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'Morioka Sansa Odori' performed in Yamagata

YAMAGATA, Japan - A team of "taiko" drummers, dancers and pipers perform the Iwate Prefecture-originated "Morioka Sansa Odori" dance in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, on May 24, 2014 as part of "the Tohoku Rokkonsai (six soul festival)" chiefly intended to comfort the spirits of a number of people who died in the 2011 earthquake in northeastern Japan.

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Sony's Yamagata Technology Center opens

YAMAGATA, Japan - An opening ceremony is held for Sony Semiconductor Corp.'s Yamagata Technology Center for manufacturing image sensors in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 8, 2014.

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Tourists enjoy snow-coated trees at Zao, Yamagata Pref.

YAMAGATA, Japan - Tourists walk among "Ice Monsters," or snow-coated trees, at the Zao hot spring and skiing resort in Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 26, 2014.

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Water-splashing festival in Yamagata Pref.

YAMAGATA, Japan - Participants dressed in traditional straw coats dance to taiko drumming during the "Kasedori Festival" in Kaminoyama, Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 11, 2014, to pray for prosperity and fire prevention while local people line the streets with buckets and ladles to splash cold water onto the procession.

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Takanashi grabs 17th World Cup title

YAMAGATA, Japan - Photo shows (from L) Germany's Carina Vogt, Japan's Sara Takanashi and Bigna Windmueller of Switzerland at the award ceremony of a women's individual World Cup ski jumping event at Zao in the city of Yamagata, northern Japan, on Jan. 19, 2014. Takanashi won the meet to claim her 17th title, setting a Japanese record for career World Cup wins. Vogt and Windmueller finished second and third, respectively.

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Tohoku students trying to become art restorers

TOKYO, Japan - Misaki Tanahashi, a first-year graduate student at the Tohoku University of Art and Design, restores documents kept by a family in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, at a university room in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, on July 18, 2013.

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Man as bride, woman as groom in Yamagata event

YAMAGATA, Japan - "Mujina no mukasari," a traditional event in which a young man (far R) dressed up as a bride and a young woman (2nd from R) as a groom parade through a district in Yamagata Prefecture, is held on the night of Nov. 11, 2012. The comical event is to wish for fertility and a rich harvest.

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Film adaptation of 1983 Japanese drama "Oshin"

YAMAGATA, Japan - Photo taken May 4, 2012, shows a movie village in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture in northeastern Japan. The 1983 Japanese television drama "Oshin," which was hugely popular in Japan and well-received around the world, will be adapted for a film that will probably be shot at the village, sources familiar with the matter said May 31, 2012.

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Hendrickson at women's World Cup

YAMAGATA, Japan - Sarah Hendrickson of the United States soars through the air at a ski jumping Women's World Cup meet in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, on March 4, 2012. World Cup rankings winner Hendrickson earned her eighth win of the season.

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Takanashi at women's World Cup

YAMAGATA, Japan - Sara Takanashi of Japan soars through the air at a ski jumping Women's World Cup meet in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, on March 4, 2012. She finished runner-up on the day.

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Ski jumping Women's World Cup

YAMAGATA, Japan - Sarah Hendrickson of the United States comes in second with a leap of 95.5 meters in a Women's World Cup ski jumping event in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, on March 3, 2012.

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Ski jumping Women's World Cup

YAMAGATA, Japan - Sara Takanashi (R) of Japan, the winner of a Women's World Cup ski jumping title, and Sarah Hendrickson of the United States, who finished second, are pictured after the first day of the event in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, on March 3, 2012.

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U.S. envoy in Yamagata

YAMAGATA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos (2nd from L) looks at the writing on a monument contributed by former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin Reischauer at Yamadera Basho Museum, a museum for Japanese haiku master Matsuo Basho, in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on July 24, 2011, with his family. Roos said he would like to let people around the world know that Japan is safe as the country has suffered a significant drop in foreign tourists following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Killer quake in Japan

YAMAGATA, Japan - A photo taken on March 12, 2011 shows Haramachi power generation plant in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, which was destroyed by a tsunami following a catastrophic earthquake in Japan the previous day.

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Killer quake in Japan

YAMAGATA, Japan - A photo taken on March 12, 2011 shows a petroleum tank that was destroyed in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, by a tsunami following a catastrophic earthquake in Japan the previous day.

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Anonymous donations for children

YAMAGATA, Japan - The head of a nursery in Yamagata city, northeastern Japan, shows 100,000 yen and an envelope on Jan. 11, 2011, which the nursery received from an anonymous donor who listed the name of a cartoon hero. Anonymous donations of cash, school bags and other items for children, especially to facilities for underprivileged children, under the names of cartoon hero Tiger Mask and others have been spreading across Japan since the Christmas season.

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Bear shot dead at Japan school

YAMAGATA, Japan - An Asiatic black bear is shot dead at Nagaikita Junior High School in Nagai, Yamagata Prefecture, on Oct. 14, 2010, after entering the school as well as causing injuries to two people in the northeastern Japan city the same day.

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Astronomical adviser training enjoys growing popularity

YAMAGATA, Japan - A ''star sommelier'' (2nd from L) gives guidance to visitors at the Yamagata University Astronomical Observatory in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, on May 10.

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''Human chess'' event in Tendo

YAMAGATA, Japan - Local high school students dressed up as feudal warlords move on a 16.6-meter-long, 13.8-meter-wide Japanese chess board during an annual ''human chess'' event in the city of Tendo, Yamagata Prefecture, on April 21, the opening day of the cherry blossom festival there. Tendo is famous for being Japan's largest producer of Japanese chess pieces.

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Fashion show in Hanoi

HANOI, Vietnam - A Japanese student dressed in the Vietnamese costume aodai takes part in a fashion show of Japanese kimono and Vietnamese costume in Hanoi. The show, held Jan. 12, was organized by Yukari Suzuki, the owner of a kimono studio in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture in Japan.