Quite soon after their initial success with cultured saltwater pearls, Japanese pearl farmers experimented with freshwater mussels in Lake Biwa, a large lake near Kyoto. Initial commercial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.