{"id":75559,"date":"2025-11-29T12:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=75559"},"modified":"2025-11-29T12:07:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:37:29","slug":"lake-biwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lake-biwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Biwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Lake Biwa Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers recently unearthed a remarkably well-preserved ancient relic, a nearly intact pottery vessel, in Japan, dating back over 10,000 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Lake Biwa<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>largest freshwater lake in Japan.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in Shiga ken (prefecture), west-central Honshu.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Approximately 64 km long from north to south, the lake covers an area of 672 sq.km.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its name refers to the <\/span><b>biwa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>a Japanese musical instrument<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that the <\/span><b>lake resembles in shape.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is believed to be<\/span><b> one of the world&#8217;s oldest lakes, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">formed at least four million years ago.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake <\/span><b>occupies a structural depression<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is fed by small rivers flowing from the encircling mountains.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>sole outlet, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>Yodo River, flows<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from Lake Biwa\u2019s southern tip, past Seta southwest <\/span><b>to \u014csaka Bay.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lake Biwa is a breeding ground for freshwater fish, including trout, and supports a <\/span><b>pearl culture industry.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also serves as a r<\/span><b>eservoir for the cities of Ky\u014dto and \u014ctsu <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and is a valuable resource for nearby textile industries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">It was designated as a <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ramsar-sites-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Ramsar site<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 1993.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indiandefencereview.com\/worlds-oldest-relics-in-lake-biwa-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IDR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Biwa in Japan is one of the world\u2019s oldest freshwater lakes, known for ancient relics, rich biodiversity, cultural significance, and its Ramsar site status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":75579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3939,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-75559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-lake-biwa","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}