Relatively commonplace as that description may read, writer-director Marko Raat's "8 Views of Lake Biwa" is closer to a dreamlike folktale - set sometime during the 20 th century - than to ...

A total of 31 awards were handed out – 16 in the film and 15 in the television categories. The accolades, established in 2017 ...

It still supplies water, generates power and boosts tourism. Lake Biwa is Japan's largest lake and lies to the east of Kyoto in Shiga Prefecture ...

Japan's biggest lake: Lake Biwa. It is four million years old, a source of water for 14 million people, and home to over ten aquatic creatures that are only found there. Lake Biwa contains rare ...

Kengo Suzuki won the final Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon with a national record on Feb. 28, coming in under 2 hours and 5 minutes and becoming the first Japanese to finish the event first in 19 years.

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 ...

Funazushi, which has been served for centuries and uses round crucian carp fished from Lake Biwa in Shiga prefecture, western Japan, is characterised by its distinctive sour taste and pungent aroma.