Lifestyle Feb 8, 2020
Muddy waters: The battle to save Japan's ailing freshwater pearl industry
by John Spiri
While Lake Biwa played a key role in the establishment of a domestic freshwater pearl industry, farmers are now facing a bleak future.
National Jan 21, 2014
If a Fukushima-style nuclear disaster were to occur in Fukui Prefecture, 26 percent of the surface of Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture would receive radioactive fallout exceeding the country's threshold allowable for drinking water, Shiga officials speculated Tuesday. The prefecture's forecast, disclosed the same day, ...
National Sep 18, 2013
Tons of cesium-tainted wood chips found near Japan's biggest lake
Radioactive cesium has been found on an estimated 200 to 300 tons of wood chips that were left months ago near Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture, prefectural officials said. Samples of the chips show a reading of up to 3,000 becquerels per kilogram, the officials ...