(2002 est. pop. 1.4 million). Shiga Prefecture is situated in the central region of Japan's island of Honshu, where it occupies an area of 4,016 square kilometers. Shiga's primary geographical feature is the nation's largest...

Shiga Prefecture (滋賀県, Shiga-ken?) is a prefecture of Japan which is part of the Kinki region on Honshū Island. The capital is the city of...

Architect Tadasu Ohe designed the Institute of Environmental Science of the Shiga Prefecture University in Shiga, Japan. The facility is home to a number of several academic departments belonging to fields ranging from biology to studio-based design. The facility was designed to nurture informal...

To the Editor: Data collected from expanded surveillance study suggest that more than half of Idaho Shiga toxin--producing Escherichia coli (STEC) illnesses are caused by non-0157 serotypes. Using data from a regional medical center whose stool culture protocol included Shiga toxin testing, we...

Five young Japanese were found dead inside a sealed van on Monday in an apparent group suicide, authorities said.A passer-by discovered the bodies of the three men and two women, all believed to be in their twenties, slumped in the vehicle parked along the Yasu...