BIEI, Hokkaido—Over the course of a year ... It was a shot of Shirogane Blue Pond. The pond was formed after water from Bieigawa river pooled behind a government-built dam blocking mudflows ...

BIEI, Hokkaido--This farming town of around 9,300 ... after Apple Inc. used a photo of Shirogane Blue Pond in Biei as a desktop wallpaper. The pond, a manmade reservoir with a strikingly blue ...

My husband and I have always loved traveling to Japan because ... which gives it a unique blue color. However, the Blue Pond is man-made and was the result of works on the Biei River, carried ...