I wanted to turn my occasional ramen rendezvous into a full-blown experiment to answer the age-old question of its effect on ...

Ramen spots can offer a wonderfully comforting bowl of ramen that hits all the right spots or be a plain disappointment.

Locals not only eat ramen at restaurants, but they have it delivered to their homes. A 2017 survey based on NTT TownPage Corp.’s database showed Yamagata Prefecture had 67.4 ramen restaurants ...