OTSU, Japan -- The Lake Biwa Canal Cruise is a small sightseeing boat with a capacity of about 10 people. The craft makes a round trip on the waterway between Kyoto and Otsu, and operates in the ...

LAKE BIWA, Japan — As the waves lap gently and a stork sweeps its long, white wings over the shore, Akihiko Kubo reaches over the side of the boat and pulls up a net filled with black bass and ...

Biwa-ko (琵琶湖), known as Lake Biwa in English, is one of the largest lakes in Japan and is the only ancient lake of the archipelago that has been around for approximately 4 million years.

Exclusive: Bassmaster Magazine editor James Hall interviews Manabu Kurita from Japan's Lake Biwa, where he caught a 22-pound, 5-ounce largemouth. Kurita is awaiting certification of the catch as a ...

Japan’s Lake Biwa, one of the oldest lakes in the world, may be claiming a largemouth bass that might tie the oldest and most cherished all-tackle world record in freshwater fishing. Reports ...

A government panel has proposed that some Lake Biwa canal facilities in western Japan be collectively designated as a national treasure. Five of the canal facilities, which were built to help ...

OSAKA -- Following months of fierce heat and below-average rainfall, authorities ordered a reduction in water taken from Lake Biwa and the Yodo River from Saturday, affecting Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka ...

We evaluated how large climatic and anthropogenic events impacted secondary production of copepods in Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Japan. We determined demographic traits such as body size, growth ...

Lake Biwa is Japan's largest lake and lies to the east of Kyoto in Shiga Prefecture The stream in Japanese garden Murin-an draws water from the Lake Biwa Canal ...

OTSU, Japan >> The Michigan sightseeing ship, a paddle-wheeler resembling a classic U.S. steamboat, is celebrating 40 years of taking people out on Lake Biwa pleasure cruises.

OTSU -- The annual grand fireworks festival at Lake Biwa will be held on Aug. 8 for the first time in four years due to the coronavirus pandemic, but local residents have submitted a resolution to ...