KYOTO -- At the Gion shopping district and elsewhere in this ... using donated trash cans from waste management company Kinoshita Kansei Inc., based in the Shiga Prefecture city of Otsu. Around the ...

At the festival, chefs from prefectures including Shiga and Kyoto prayed for the improvement of their skills and a good harvest. A ceremonial technique called "shiki hocho," which has roots in the ...

It is managed by Otsu-based Fukurou LLC, which offers welfare services in Kyoto and Shiga prefectures. While it is rare for a welfare facility to be involved in TV anime productions, the animators ...

Murilee Martin Higashiomi is located about 250 miles west of Tokyo, between Kyoto and Nagoya ... recommendation for anyone traveling to Shiga Prefecture), we went out to admire the many ...

Shiga Prefecture, site of Lake Biwa, Japan's largest lake, is home to centuries-old crafts like Shigaraki ware and Wana velvet. We explore an island in the lake by tricycle before climbing into ...

Hosokawa went to Beijing in November 2019 to study dragon paintings by Chen Rong, a Chinese painter from the Southern Song dynasty, and also visited temples in Kyoto and Shiga prefectures to ...

Author Name KODAMA Toshihiro (The Research Center for Advanced Policy Studies, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University) /SAITO Takashi (The Research Center for Advanced Policy Studies, ...