He was the first Japanese to win the Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon in 19 years. The marathon partly runs along Lake Biwako in Shiga Prefecture and starts and finishes at the Ojiyama Stadium in Otsu ...

The Sept. 30 survey, taken off the coast of Takashima’s Imazu district in Lake Biwako, Japan’s largest freshwater body, showed five points with severely low oxygen levels for the first time.