The biwa is a stringed instrument that came to Japan from ancient Persia via the Silk Road. For over 800 years, it has been used to accompany the telling of Buddhist tales and epic stories such as ...

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Japan's biggest lake: Lake Biwa. It is four million years old, a source of water for 14 million people, and home to over ten aquatic creatures that are only found there.

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The naked body of a woman was found floating in Lake Biwa, Otsu City, in Shiga Prefecture, on Friday. According to police, a woman called 110 at around 8 a.m. and said a woman’s body was floating in ...

“Because I came across the ‘biwa,’” he said. One day, he heard an intriguing instrument being played on the radio, which sounded more modern than the violin or the guitar. It was the sound ...

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A young girl named Biwa is the heroine of “Heike Monogatari” (The Heike Story), a Japanese anime series. In the series, based on a medieval Japanese war epic called "The Tale of the Heike ...

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