In 2004, I first came across this song, not in Shiga, but inOkaya, Nagano Prefectureof all places. Along the shore of Lake Suwa, there was alakeside song monumentinscribed with the lyrics. I was very surprised to see Shiga place names mentioned in the song. I took pictures and later d...
Apr 8, 2020: At Kyoto Sangyo University, three COVID-19 infected male students returned from a European trip in mid-March & foolishly partied with other students. By March 30, 16 students & staff at the university were confirmed cases. At least two of the infected people live Shiga. Apr ...
Shiga Prefecture is part of Kansai (Kinki), a major economic region. Agriculture dominates the economy, with 72,000 hectares under cultivation, primarily in rice (harvest, 254,000 tons), on the fertile Koto plain east of Lake Biwa. The southern parts of the plain have two harvests a year...
A distributional survey of the large branchiopod crustaceans of the rice paddies of Shiga Prefecture, Japan, was conducted by the Lake Biwa Museum in May and June of 1999 and 2000. Collecting kits were issued to over 100 lay Field Reporters, who returned all samples, usually dried, to the...
Department of Microbiology, University of Miyazaki, Gakuen Kibanadai Nishi 1-1, JapanSpringer-VerlagEuropean Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious DiseasesKawano K, Ono H, Iwashita O, Kurogi M, Haga T, Maeda K, Goto Y. 2012. stx genotype and molecular epidemiological analyses of Shiga ...