A young girl named Biwa is the heroine of “Heike Monogatari” (The Heike Story), a Japanese anime series. In the series, based on a medieval Japanese war epic called "The Tale of the Heike," Biwa ...

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OK, you’re in Kyoto. After you’ve had your fill of temples, shrines and gardens, what do you do? Eat tofu dishes, matcha this and that, or light Kyoto-style home cooking with boiled vegetables and ...

Snails may look slow and sleepy, but evolutionarily the freshwater mollusks in Lake Biwa have been busy. However, despite evidence of morphological and genetic variation, new species divergence long ...

Abundant water makes for beautiful scenery, and Lake Biwa also serves as a reservoir for the Kansai region. Most of the water used in the city of Kyoto is drawn from this lake. Meanwhile, the whole of ...

The pear-shaped biwa lute has enchanted listeners in Japan for centuries. Played with a large wooden plectrum, the instrument has four or five strings of twisted silk stretched over four or more deep ...

Biwa-ko (琵琶湖), known as Lake Biwa in English, is one of the largest lakes in Japan and is the only ancient lake of the archipelago that has been around for approximately 4 million years. Biwa-ko is ...

Often puzzling but ultimately fascinating, Marko Raat’s new otherworldly feature observes a religious community seeking the love they are missing in all the wrong places. For starters, Raat took the ...

Governor of Shiga Prefecture Taizo Mikazuki will visit the U.S. state of Michigan in 2026. The relationship between Shiga Prefecture and the State of Michigan began in 1968, inspired by a shared ...

Seasonal fruits and vegetables are plentiful in Japan, and so here I am doing what I do best — tweaking recipes to come up with food I truly miss. Today, I’m introducing one very special fruit I’ve ...

The 10-year-old izakaya, which introduced a generation of Portlanders to ramen, yakitori and a dozen other Japanese and Korean drinking snacks before splitting itself in half last year, will return to ...