The car in the above photo has sat in that same location for as long as I've been living in Yonezawa. Essentially it's an abandoned vehicle. But I couldn't suss out why it hadn't been towed away. Finally, a month or two ago, I found out.
The story, according to a friend of mine, is that it belongs to a fellow who used to own a very large plot of land on the east side of Yonezawa station. As time passed he subdivided his land and sold off the parcels piece by piece. Eventually he was left with a tiny sliver of land occupying a corner next to an intersection. That's where he parked his car.
The rest of the story is that the fellow no longer lives in Yonezawa. I've glanced at the licence plates on the car and they're from Nagano prefecture (or city). So that part of the story sounds like it's true. I also heard he's e a bit advanced in age and doesn't travel around much either. So, he probably doesn't have any reason to be back in Yonezawa again. So his old car has remained in Yonezawa sitting on his last piece of real estate here. Thus we have the last piece of the puzzle.
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