Proper noun
A prefecture of Japan.
The capital city of Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgChitetsu Watanabe, 112, poses next to the calligraphy he wrote after being awarded as the world's oldest living male by Guinness World Records, in Joetsu, Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, Feb. 12, 2020. Source: Internet
A prime example of this sort of advertising was a controversial broadcast in Niigata Prefecture extolling the safety measures to be implemented for the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant when it goes back online. Source: Internet
I visited Japan with in 1998 and lived with a family in Niigata for a week (they stayed with me in 1992). Source: Internet
No Japanese fan who saw the congas at Niigata during the Denmark game will ever forget them. Source: Internet
One member is Yuichi Wakisaka, 53, president of the Wakisaka Engei flower-growing company based in Agano in Niigata Prefecture. Source: Internet
The author is associate professor of National Niigata University Japan and a senior fellow at the Institute of Advanced Area Studies and Global Governance, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. Source: Internet