This is an island in the Seto Inland Sea in Yamaguchi Prefecture. When seeing this kanji name (大津島), those of us in Shiga cannot…
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…
I recently visited Seian University of Art and Design in western Otsu (near Ogoto Onsen Station on the JR Kosei Line) for the first time. (In…
Went to Mitsui Memorial Museum in Nihonbashi, Tokyo to see an exhibition of religious art from Shiga Prefecture. It was excellent. Buddha statues,…
I’m very pleased to see NHK TV’s Shiga news Web site providing video clips of their 6:10 pm evening TV news program. Before,…