Chronology of Shiga Prefecture’s news bits for November-December 2013 (according to the year, month, day, and time posted at Japan time).
Originally posted on Twitter under Shiga Headlines by Philbert Ono. Twitter posts are limited to 140 characters including spaces and links (shortened by Twitter).
| 2013/11/01 2:51 | Moriyama City Hall dept. head (57) disciplined and resigned in disgrace on Oct. 31 after sexual harassment of a female city hall worker. |
| 2013/11/01 3:01 | According to NHK, the whereabouts of 2 Important Cultural Property Buddhist statues from Daikoji temple in Koka are unknown. Stolen & sold. |
| 2013/11/01 8:07 | My friend Austin Moore in Hino talked to the Wall Street Journal about renovating and living in a huge Japanese home. http://t.co/glKxXyWD2K |
| 2013/11/01 9:27 | Nenga New Year’s postcards now on sale. Shiga version has a small drawing of Ritto racehorses for Year of the Horse. http://t.co/8YxkFEIhxl |
| 2013/11/03 12:57 | Today, Omi Jingu Shrine held its annual Yabusame Festival, Shiga’s best horseback archery today. http://t.co/X7vnA8kSFm |
| 2013/11/05 12:24 | Nagahama City Hall General Affairs (総務課) worker 伊戸昇平 (24) arrested for stealing woman’s underwear from an apt. balcony. Caught red-handed. |
| 2013/11/05 12:28 | Otsu City Hall worker Morita Yoshimitsu (59) 森田佳光 arrested for leaking bid price to a co. bidding for Otsu Municipal Hospital wing design. |
| 2013/11/06 4:34 | Besides Morita’s arrest, this year has seen a string of arrests and scandals of Otsu City Hall workers for embezzlement, unpaid taxes, etc. |
| 2013/11/08 15:12 | Due to diastrophism, Lake Biwa has moved southeast by about 20 cm during 2001-2012. Width also shrank by 3 cm. ##地殻変動 #琵琶湖３センチ縮む |
| 2013/11/09 12:58 | Kansai governments 関西広域連合 want the Hokuriku shinkansen from Tsuruga/Fukui to go thru Maibara instead of the Kosei and Obama/Wakasa routes. |
| 2013/11/13 2:13 | Gov. Kada favors helping Koka with the ¥350 mil. cost of restoring Shigaraki Kogen Railway. Japanese govt. will only bear 25% of the cost. |
| 2013/11/16 5:06 | Yukinoyama Tumulus 雪野山古墳 in Ryuo, Omi-Hachiman, and Higashi-Omi to become Shiga’s 47th National Historic Site. http://t.co/f6DxH9go0F |
| 2013/11/20 13:26 | A female Steller’s Sea Eagle オオワシ arrived on Mt. Yamamoto-yama in Nagahama for the 16th winter in a row. Big bird. http://t.co/NdYCt6Wnqf |
| 2013/11/23 1:59 | Otsu primary school teacher Masashi Kazama (35) 風間政司 arrested for sneaking into the women’s restroom at a nat’l university in Otsu in April. Kazama was fined ¥100,000 and suspended from work for 1 month starting Nov. 22, 2013. He submitted a letter of resignation. |
| 2013/11/25 12:40 | Strong winds today toppled canopy structures at HigashiOmi’s Sogenji temple 曹源寺 during a funeral, killing a man and injuring a man & woman. |
| 2013/12/05 15:54 | Bicyclists are now required to ride on left shoulder of the road if there are no sidewalks. Over 1000 bicycle accidents in Shiga in 2013. |
| 2013/12/05 15:57 | As of Oct. 31, 2013, 11 fatalities and 1,034 injured in bicycle accidents in Shiga this year. |
| 2013/12/05 16:10 | Hundreds of tons of cesium-tainted wood chips abandoned along Takashima’s Kamo River since April will be removed during late Dec. to Jan. |
| 2013/12/18 15:19 | Education Ministry found Shiga’s 5th graders scoring lower than the national average on physical fitness tests. 体力と運動能力 |
| 2013/12/26 7:50 | Koka estimates that it will cost almost ¥700 million to restore Shigaraki Kogen Railway. It will apply for subsidies from the central gov. |
| 2013/12/26 7:59 | Built in 1974 and expanded in 1985, the Omi Ohashi Bridge is now toll-free from Dec. 26 since its cost is all paid up. One-way toll for ordinary cars was ¥150. |
| 2013/12/30 13:02 | RT @Astro_Wakata: 立命館守山中学校の皆さん、ISSアマチュア無線の「ARISSスクールコンタクト」イベントで素晴らしい質問をありがとう。皆さんの持っている好奇心を大切にして、目標をはっきり持ってこれからも頑張ってください。 |
| 2013/12/30 13:18 | On Dec 29, Ritsumeikan Moriyama Jr. High students spoke for 10 min. with astronaut Koichi Wakata on Int’l Space Station via ham radio ARISS. |
