{"id":1104,"date":"2012-01-15T09:16:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T00:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2015-10-28T08:48:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T23:48:36","slug":"lake-biwa-article-in-daily-yomiuri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/lake-biwa-article-in-daily-yomiuri\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Biwa article in Daily Yomiuri"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The paper article in The Daily Yomiuri is more impressive than the online version. Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A short article about Lake Biwa<\/a> titled,\u00a0Japan’s blue pearl \/ Views of Lake Biwa<\/em> is in today’s The Daily Yomiuri<\/em>\u00a0English newspaper (Jan. 15, 2012 issue). It was written by\u00a0Christal Whelan in her monthly column called KANSAI CULTURESCAPES.\u00a0She is\u00a0a cultural anthropologist (Ph.D) living in Kyoto.<\/p>\n

She writes mainly about Biwa pearls which are ironically obscure now, but quite famous outside Shiga among pearl fans. During New Year’s,\u00a0I met with Christal when she visited Nagahama<\/a> and Chikubushima<\/a> for the first time. She visited Shiga a few times to research this article and has seen many more places (such as Harie in Takashima<\/a>) than she writes about. She told me that she enjoyed Shiga and would definitely come back and visit again.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Christal and The Daily Yomiuri<\/em> for the article.<\/p>\n

Her article is online, but as of this writing, the five photos in the newspaper article are not included in the online article:\u00a0http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/dy\/features\/culture\/T120109001338.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A short article about Lake Biwa titled,\u00a0Japan’s blue pearl \/ Views of Lake Biwa is in today’s The Daily Yomiuri\u00a0English newspaper (Jan. 15, 2012 issue). It was written by\u00a0Christal Whelan in her monthly column called KANSAI CULTURESCAPES.\u00a0She is\u00a0a cultural anthropologist… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biwako","category-nagahama","category-omihachiman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3856,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}