OTSU--Plastic accounts for more than 70 percent ... to inhabit there,” said a representative of the prefecture’s Lake Biwa Conservation and Restoration Division. “Efforts must be made ...

An annual spring Shinto festival has started at a shrine near Lake Biwa in Japan's western prefecture ... on Sunday at the Hiyoshi Taisha shrine in Otsu City. The festival dates back to the ...

OTSU, Shiga Prefecture--For the first time in ... The event is one of the three major festivals held near Lake Biwako and designated by the central government as an important intangible folk ...