{"id":4077,"date":"2026-06-22T16:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/?p=4077"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:48:03","slug":"july-1st-is-lake-biwa-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/news\/4077\/","title":{"rendered":"July 1st is &#8220;Lake Biwa Day.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to suppress the occurrence of freshwater red tides, Shiga Prefecture enacted the <br \/>\r\n&#8221; Ordinance Relating to the Prevention of Eutrophication in Lake Biwa&#8221;<br \/>\r\n(Lake Biwa Ordinance) on July 1, 1980. <br \/>\r\nThe following year, to commemorate the first anniversary of the enactment of the Lake Biwa <br \/>\r\nOrdinance, July 1st was designated as &#8220;Lake Biwa Day.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Lake Biwa Day&#8221; is not limited to environmental conservation of Lake Biwa; &#8220;Biwa-katsu Events&#8221; <br \/>\r\nwill be held in various regions throughout Shiga Prefecture until August 27th, &#8220;World Lake Day.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>Let&#8217;s work together to pass on the beautiful Lake Biwa to future generations.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/01.png 759w, https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/01-300x157.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><br \/>\r\nYou can watch the promotional video for &#8220;Lake Biwa Day&#8221; created by Shiga Prefecture by scanning the QR code below.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"189\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4083\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/03.jpg 884w, https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/03-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/03-768x824.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to suppress the occurrence of freshwater red tides, Shiga Prefecture enacted the &#8221; Ordinance Re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4077"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4086,"href":"https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions\/4086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shinko-seiki.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}