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 ...

Relatively commonplace as that description may read, writer-director Marko Raat's "8 Views of Lake Biwa" is closer to a ... Jr.), a widower and the town's fishing inspector, who rents a blind ...

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.

Elsewhere in the prefecture, Biwako Daughters, a shop in Nosu featuring tsukudani thinly-sliced seafood, meat or seaweed simmered in soy sauce, sells funazushi and cheese sandwiches as it hopes to ...