Tadami is in Minamiaizu in Fukushima; cut off by steep mountains and located on the prefecture border with Niigata.

It is necessary to secure financing for local road maintenance.

I tried to absorb as much of local culture as possible.

Rice is the chief crop in this area.

She is a local government officer.

Their marriage ceremony was performed according to the custom of the district.

He had to master a lot of new information and spend some time in different parts of the country.

He tried to absorb as much of the local culture as possible.

His name is known to everybody in this area.

He recently had the bad luck to incur his boss' wrath and got sent out to work in the boondocks.

At last, spring has come to this part of Japan.

The district attorney wasn't content with a two-year sentence.

It has been long since they said the time of local government had come.

Local officials are twisting arms to push new development projects.

I don't think it's always right for local governments to submit to the central government.

The district attorney indicted him for theft and murder.

Local party members are trying to gerrymander the district.

We have adequate inventories of the product to meet local demand.

The local news will be broadcast next.

Many families left to make a new life on the frontier.