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Recommended festivals (matsuri), events, exhibitions, and fall leaves in Shiga Prefecture in November–December 2018. (Most official Web sites are in Japanese only.) Compiled…
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We are marking the 10th anniversary of shiga-ken.com in 2015. It was 10 years ago in February 2005 when I first registered the…
Happy to announce that I’ve finally opened a Twitter account for shiga-ken.com. It’s called Shiga Headlines and anybody can read my tweets (Twitter…
I took this photo inside a department store in Kyoto. It happened to include the three words I live by. Merry Christmas!
The home page at shiga-ken.com has been revamped to be an online portal to Shiga Prefecture. I used to have a long list…
Shiga News has been modernized with a new look and feel. The banner images (all Shiga photos) rotate each time you access Shiga…