In Shiga food comes in so many delicious tastes and flavors born out of a rich natural environment and the prefecture's long history. In addition to Omi Beef, one of Japan's top three Wagyu beef ...

Funazushi, which has been served for centuries and uses round crucian carp fished from Lake Biwa in Shiga prefecture ... another fermented food, to conceptualise a modern take on funazushi.

Izutsuya in Maibara, Shiga Prefecture, was founded in 1854 ... ($9.50), which went on sale in 1987 as “bullet train gourmet food” to coincide with the privatization of the Japanese National ...

I have said this too many times. In the 1990’s ninety percent of the work I did were E. coli O157:H7 cases linked to ...

In a nation as culturally rich as Japan, it can be hard to know how to spend your time there. Here are ten of our favorite ...

Sixteen years ago today, on March 14, 2009, President Barack Obama addressed the nation with a clear and urgent message: Food safety is not ...

AISHO, Shiga Prefecture--Residents here started a crowdfunding drive to help a COVID-19-hit school that was set up as a lifeline for Brazilian children struggling to adapt to life in Japan.

SHIGA (TR) – Shiga Prefectural Police launched an investigation after a man in his 70s was found collapsed and bleeding in an apartment in Otsu City later died. Meanwhile, a woman believed to be his ...

Researchers recently showed how changing weather patterns caused by climate change could contribute to E. coli outbreaks.

This widespread appreciation for Japanese cuisine among Filipinos made the Philippines a fitting location for the Japan ...

A Munshiganj court today sentenced a woman to life imprisonment for murdering her husband by mixing sedatives in his food in ...