YAMAGATA--Rich pickings are to be had at cherry farms in Tendo, Yamagata Prefecture, where a single cherry of a premium brand that took more than 20 years to develop can sell for as much as ...

TENDO, Yamagata Prefecture--Serious rice wine drinkers overseas tend to fall over themselves trying to get their hands on “ginjo” high-quality sake produced by Dewazakura Sake Brewery Co.

Omachi Sakuranbo-en, a cherry farm in Tendo, Yamagata Prefecture, manages around 1,500 cherry trees, mainly of the Sato Nishiki variety. Many of the farm’s cherries this year were too small or ...