Congratulations to Miki Ito who won the World Cup dual moguls event today (Feb. 24, 2013) in Inawashiro, Fukushima. She is from Hino,…
This has become an “I told you so” story. People who were opposed to Kada joining hands with Ichiro Ozawa must be repeating…
Chronology of Shiga Prefecture’s news bits for January-December 2012. Compiled by Philbert Ono. Jan. 22, 2012: Naomi Koshi (越 直美) defeats two-term (8 years)…
What seemed to be totally out of the blue, our Shiga Governor Yukiko Kada has formed a new political party called Nippon Mirai…
Big congratulations to Shiga-native and Shiga-based Olympians who won medals at the London 2012 Olympics. They include Olympians who made history as being…
I disdain mentioning the bad and corrupt side of Shiga Prefecture which no doubt has its share of corrupt, inept, incompetent, or unsavory…
Updated: Nov. 7, 2014 The Hikone Board of Education has published a manga comic booklet in English titled, Hikone: A Journey in Time.…